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artk@Congruent.COM (Arthur Kreitman) writes:

>In article <WILLIAMS.95Apr4112832@martha.utcc.utk.edu> williams@martha.utcc.utk.edu (Myles Williams) writes:

>>   So only the kernel, the libraries, and a free single server will be
>>   available.  OSF/1 itself will remain proprietary.  Furthermore, the blurb
>>   says that OSF/1 will remain a single server.  On with the Hurd!

>   That's not my reading of what it says.  First, they say in the blurb
>that "a mechanism introduced to improve the performance of multi-server
>based systems" tells me that you should have read the announcement 
>more carefully.

This appears to be mostly a comment on the Mach kernel itself, not their
free UNIX server.  No details are given about it.

What *is* said is:

"We hope that by making this version of the OSF Mach
 microkernel available by anonymous FTP, we will
 encourage members of the research community who are
 building or interested in building servers based on Mach
 to consider using the OSF Mach microkernel. This kernel
 base has evolved considerably beyond the recent CMU
 kernel releases; the OSF RI will continue to develop and
 support this release."

This seems to imply more that the free UNIX server is meant to be
a tool in contructing your own servers than meant to be used by itself.

Other interpretations are welcome, but if it gets to be that much of
an issue, send them e-mail, they'll probably tell you.

>Second, are you telling me that the HURD project 
>is developing more then a unix server.  

The GNU HURD is generally "UNIX compatible".  This does not imply that
it is limited to UNIX semantics, mainly that it is capable of them.  From
my perusal of most and work on some of the code, it appears to be clearly
superior to most UNIX-like implementations, particularly in both its level
of modularity and choice of module boundaries.

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