Re: Hardware and OS for free software development

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From: Michael Meissner
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 1990 18:58

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In article <7570@goofy.Apple.COM> escher@Apple.COM (Michael Crawford)
writes:

| Buy a 386 PC, get Mach for free, and purchase the Andrew file system
| (to be available "soon") from Transarc, then load it up with the
| GNU utilities, and the BSD4.3 tahoe utilities, which are distributed
| by FSF.  I am looking into this myself; send me mail, if you are
| interested, and I will pass on the details when I get them.
| 
| This is only if you cannot wait for GNU to be released; it will have it all
| for free.

Mach 2.5 is currently encumbered by the requirement that you have a
UNIX source code license, so that the Berkeley code in it (which in
turn is based on the AT&T code) can run.  Mach 3.00 will not need a
UNIX license, but that is misleading, since you won't have UNIX
compatiblity (ie, it will be pure Mach, and only pure Mach).
--
Michael Meissner	email: meissner@osf.org		phone: 617-621-8861
Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA

Catproof is an oxymoron, Childproof is nearly so

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