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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!gdt!aber!fronta.aber.ac.uk!pcg From: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Subject: Re: Whats up with the OS/2 port of NetBSD? In-Reply-To: pcbsd@netcom.com's message of Thu, 30 Dec 1993 08: 05:15 GMT Message-ID: <PCG.93Dec30202303@frontb.aber.ac.uk> Sender: news@aber.ac.uk (USENET news service) Nntp-Posting-Host: frontb.aber.ac.uk Reply-To: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Organization: Prifysgol Cymru, Aberystwyth References: <CIsAFt.Hq0@news2.cis.umn.edu> <2fs77e$oat@sparc10.entropic.com> <CIt1Dy.I0G@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <crt.757187888@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> <2fteq3$6vt@deep.rsoft.bc.ca> <pcbsdCIu94s.766@netcom.com> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1993 20:23:02 GMT Lines: 27 >>> On Thu, 30 Dec 1993 08:05:15 GMT, pcbsd@netcom.com (PCBSD >>> Development Manager) said: PCBSD> IBM is redesigning the internals of OS/2 to provide something PCBSD> similar to what Microsoft promoses for NT - subsystems. Well, "redesigning" is a bit of an understatement -- "replacing" is more appropriate. PCBSD> Theoretically, the new OS/2 will have an ability to plug-and-use PCBSD> subsystems such as POSIX, DOS, etc. Actually the Workplace OS, as it will be called, already exists; it is called Mach or OSF/1... :-) IBM have clearly stated that the next generation of OS they will have will be Mach based, and will have Posix, MSDOS (these already exist and have been demonstrated), OS/2, MS Windows, System 7, and AIX 3.x personality modules. Apparently the System 7 module is also already in existence, and seems to work (at least on the PowerPC). PCBSD> I am not sure what IBM will have available as far as UNIX PCBSD> compatible environment, but PCBSD will be migrated to whatever PCBSD> IBM comes up with next. Well, I think that PCBSD will then become the legendary BSDSS for Mach :-).