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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!bofh.dot!rtd.com!dgy From: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Mach Microkernel + FreeBSD + PowerMacs Date: 22 May 1996 01:18:30 GMT Organization: CICDO Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4ntq16$c8v@baygull.rtd.com> References: <960520191156-rrwood@io.org> <4nt0en$3j5@linet06.li.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: seagull.rtd.com In article <4nt0en$3j5@linet06.li.net>, John W. Carbone <jwc@newshost.li.net> wrote: > >Wasn't the orginal personality that CMU wrote Mach with BSD? There was the BSDSS (BSD Single Server) but that, I think, ran into some gray areas with the USL issue. Mach-UX was an encumbered BSD server (needed BSD license). Mach-US was an unencumbered BSD multiserver and, I believe, the "end-of-the-line" as far as development goes... There are/were, of course, other "token" and "specialty" systems... >If that was the case, would it not be even easier than the Linux/Mach >effort was? Hmmm... depends on how you define "easy"... :>