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I'm not sure if you mean the foundation of Mac OS X itself, or of the desktop. The desktop is a part of Mac OS X's Finder application which is written by Apple from scratch in Objective-C using the Cocoa framework. Mac OS X itself's core is Darwin, a UNIX operating system based on the open source FreeBSD.

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