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From: michael@wft.stack.urc.tue.nl (Michael Brouwer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.mach
Subject: Re: Q: Status of 386bsd Mach-3.0 server
Date: 9 Apr 1993 05:23:34 GMT
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
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In article <1q1up8INNi50@ymir.cs.umass.edu> doyle@cs.umass.edu (Jim Doyle)  
writes:
> I have heard little details as to the status of the server - no called -  
BSDSS5 other than alot of bugs have been cleaned up and it is available for the 
> MIPS and i386/486 platform. 
> 
> There appears to be alot of interest in reviving Mach 3.0 as an operating
> system base for a 'free Unix' ; when this happens - alot of platform
> specific work in Linux or 386BSD can be leveraged into a User-space
> implementation that will run not only on the i386/486 but also the 
> other free platforms that Mach supports.

Not only that, but mach will enable you to run different OSes
simultainiously.  There already is a publicly availible dos emulation server
(mdos) for i386 machines running mach 3.0.

> Carnegie-Mellon is now distributing Mach 3.0 on the following hardware
> platforms:

How many of you out there would be interested in switching from 386bsd
to mach 3.0/bsdss based development?  It might be worth putting together
a binary distribution based on mach/bsdss and 386bsd binutils.

There is a 386bsd based mach server available for ftp.  This is version
bsdss4.  There are still some bugs in here (mostly signal handeling
stuff).

Michael

PS: Is there already a license free binary distribution of a mach 3.0
kernel (with poe) for i386 systems?  This would make the bsdss bootstrap
a lot easier.