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#! rnews 1871 sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.dacom.co.kr!news.netins.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.sandia.gov!sargon.mdl.sandia.gov!aflundi From: aflundi@mdl.sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin) Subject: Re: The Future of FreeBSD... Message-ID: <1995Jul26.141813.8617@mdl.sandia.gov> Reply-To: aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin) Organization: MDL, Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM References: <DC6vJ3.L53@news.central.com> <3v01bh$q7q@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <3v3a9f$47q@helena.mt.net> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 14:18:13 GMT Lines: 26 In article <3v3a9f$47q@helena.mt.net>, Nate Williams <nate@sneezy.sri.com> wrote: >In article <3v01bh$q7q@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, >Jon Jenkins <jenkinsj@ozy.dec.com> wrote: >>>If you look at all of the good things that are in NT and OS/2 they all >>>originated with work done on the Unix operating system. Well, with OS/2 >>>some came also from IBM's work on SYS/36 but the point is there. >> >>This is patently untrue. NT is based on the mach kernel > >Just for clarification, NT is *NOT* based on the mach kernel, although a >few of the big Mach folks do work for M$, and probably have brought in >many of the features of Mach into NT. The word I hear is that Rashid (of Mach fame) is in a position something like a "Fellow". In other words, he has no product development responsibilities, and can work on whatever he pleases. I gather his work has no ties or association with Cutler's NT (formerly VMS) group except that they all now work for Micro$oft. Also, I hear that the "Cairo" OS that MS is working on is a repackage of the OO version of Unix called "Clouds". --alan -- Alan Lundin <aflundi@sandia.gov>