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Mac OS X Architecture

Click on the respective colors to get the section walkthrough for each layer of Mac OS X. Each section is chronologically ordered from bottom to top just like the OS is itself. This is a very simple walkthrough just to get you an idea of how OS X was built. It by no means is an in-depth analysis of how the architecture works in OS X.

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