Mach

[Edward Wilkinson]

Under a heading  `Controversy'  in  issue  2  of the Usenix  Computing
Systems journal, there is an interesting article about availability of
OS source, with respect  to Unix  &  other  systems. Could Mach  (or a
sanitized AT&T cleansed version!) be a candidate for replacing Unix in
the academic world? I've read that once CMU have  removed all the AT&T
source, they intend  to distribute  it  for a neglegible  fee, so that
people  like the Free Software Foundation  can use  it  for Gnu, among
other things. Mach seems to have some of the features mentioned in the
article. e.g. lightweight  processes, simple IPC  & the simplicity and
elegance of the early Unix systems.

Just wondering. Sorry  if this  this  already  been discussed -  stuff
takes longer to get to these shores :-(
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