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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:14096 comp.os.mach:3915 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uchinews!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!donn From: donn@u.washington.edu (Donn Cave) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.mach Subject: Re: Anyone using MachTen on a Mac? Date: 5 Jun 1994 07:23:18 GMT Organization: University of Washington Lines: 22 Message-ID: <2sruh6$hnh@news.u.washington.edu> References: <1994Jun3.210215.20699@midway.uchicago.edu> <2sp809$hnq@xochi.tezcat.com> <1994Jun4.091322.13685@midway.uchicago.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: homer06.u.washington.edu enf1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Eric Fischer) writes: | I'm well aware of the fact that NetBSD exists, and it certainly seems | like a conceptually better system than running over MacOS, but last | I heard it was compatible with neither the 68040 nor built-in video, | without which support it's useless to me. Would that it were otherwise... | and if I knew enough about low-level Macintosh programming to try to | help out the cause, I would, but alas, it's far beyond my scope. So MachTen runs on MacOS? Interesting, I have a paper from a USENIX workshop that describes Mach, and they go on at some length about a Macintosh server running on Mach 3.0. I wonder, if you had that, if you could then run Mach on Mac on Mach? And then what would you run on top of that for an operating system? Seriously, anyway, I'm typing this on an Amiga running NetBSD, and it's great, for UNIX. (BTW, the Amiga port handles 68040.) But of course it will be a long time before anyone has video running on it - that kind of thing would have to go into that monolithic kernel, and it's probably not worth it. Mach ought to be more flexible, though, right? Donn Cave, donn@cac.washington.edu