Hexley is the mascot of the open source operating system, Darwin (operating system), which is the core of Mac OS X. Hexley is a cartoon platypus that usually wears a cap which resembles a demon s horns and carries a trident, similar to the BSD Daemon. Hexley was designed and copyrighted by Jon Hooper. Hexley is not affiliated with Apple Computer. The name was a mistake — it was originally supposed to be named after Thomas Henry Huxley, a 19th century English biologist who was a well-known champion of Charles Darwin s theory of evolution (nick-named Darwin s bulldog ); however ignorance led not only to a mistake in Huxley s name, but who he was (the developers apparently thought he was simply Darwin s assistant, when in fact he was a prominent biologist in his own right). By the time the mistake had been discovered, however, it was deemed too late to change and the incorrect name Hexley was kept.[http://www.hexley.com/history.html]
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http://www.hexley.com/ The Official Website of Hexley the Platypus]