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In article <9212242204.AA18763@flammulated.owlnet.rice.edu>
Steve T. Tran <sttran@owlnet.rice.edu> writes:
] <stuff about my Mach that I'm planning deleted>
] Sounds like an interesting project. I'd be willing to contribute some effort --
] I'm interested in sharpening my Mac and UNIX skills and this sounds like a
] good thing (tm) :-).  Would you use something like Net/2 or build from scratch
] like Linux?
 
Mach itself has already been written by the folks at CMU.  Therefore, I
won't be building from scratch or anything.  I "simply" :-) have to
hack it up to run on the 68030-based Macs.  Also, Mach itself isn't
really a UNIX - it's a microkernel upon which an OS (one that's
UNIX-like, like the BSD Net/2 Single Server, or non-UNIX-like, like
something-else-I-haven't-heard-of-yet) can be built.  I have yet to
study the kernel docs proper from OSF -- it's a few hundred pages
worth of PostScript, and I don't have the resource$ to blow in getting
it printed.  I also don't have GhostScript, so I can't sit at home and
wear out a few ink cartridges on my DeskJet.  [Aside -- does anyone
know where I can get plain text versions of these OSF Mach 3 docs?
Thanx.]

If you still want to help, let me know.  I'd suggest getting the
microkernel code off an ftp site (probably a .cs.cmu.edu site, since
they should have the latest) -- I've got version mk75 right now.  I
also suggest that if we work together we use the same kind of
environment -- GCC, GAS, GNU ld, and in general a UNIX-like development
system.  Of course, minix would be cool, but you could probably do just
as well under A/UX or MachTEN (which is already Mach-based) or whatever
(though MPW won't cut it -- I've tried).

Either way, I'll probably fill in y'all with my "plan for porting" as
soon as I get it completely worked out.  That way y'all can criticize it
to your collective hearts' content and I can use that feedback to modify
what I'm doing.

Happy holidays, and thanx for letting me blather on...
Chris
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