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MacOS is descended from NeXTSTEP which dates back to the 1980s. There is probably a lot of terrible code in there.

Edit: terrible from today's security perspective, I meant.






Take a look at it yourself if you're curious. The kernel code is open source: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu



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