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From: Paul Snively
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1989 17:42
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1989 17:42
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In article <20338@ut-emx.UUCP> think@ut-emx.UUCP (s j moon) writes:
> >
> > I would like to see FSF software running on mac... but under MacMach,
not
> > the Mac OS.
> >
> > Hopefully, MacMach will help break down the wall between the system
> > software and the programmer that Apple has forced on all of us
> > ("we will tell you what you NEED to know and no more").
> >
>
> What is MacMach ? Could you tell us details of it?
> thanks. s j moon
Sure. What's loosely known as "MacMach" is Carnegie-Mellon University's
port of their Mach OS kernel (and presumably the rest of the OS) to the
Macintosh II family of computers. Mach is a very tight UNIX kernel which,
with the appropriate layers above it, can (and generally does) maintain OS
service-level compatibility with 4.3 BSD UNIX, but it has several other
nifty features as well, such as lightweight processes, more
general/powerful IPC, and the like. More information can be had by
reading comp.os.mach.
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