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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: What is BSD
Message-ID: <id.82PL1.913@nmti.com>
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References: <3ta683$ujm@newsflash.hol.gr> <3tur0n$7tt@park.uvsc.edu> <AMOSS.95Jul16184021@picton.cs.huji.ac.il>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 17:54:04 GMT
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In article <AMOSS.95Jul16184021@picton.cs.huji.ac.il>,
Amos Shapira <amoss@picton.cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> DEC's "Digital UNIX" ("the OS formerly known as OSF/1", "Ni!!") is
> based on Mach, even though it has some feel of BSD (there are still
> fragmants of the format of the kernel configuration files! :-)
More accurately, OSF/1 is pretty much a BSD-based UNIX server running
on a Mach 2.5 microkernel. The actual UNIX services are pretty much a
straight BSD implementation.
And BSD now uses the Mach VM system. It's all very incestuous.
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