[TUHS] CMU Mach sources?

Kevin Bowling kevin.bowling at kev009.com
Tue Jun 25 18:15:20 AEST 2019


Thanks for the link.  This is overall a great find, and you almost
totally made my night, but the doc/unpublished directory seems to be
pruned versus what other docs in here state :(.  In particular I'm
looking for the stuff mentioned in
ftp://ftp2.fr.openbsd.org/pub/mach/cmu/FAQ/rs6k_announce

On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 8:08 PM Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello!
> Actually Chris, I found a complete collection of both CMU Mach and the
> Flux Group Mach, and even MkMach at the FTP2 site for the French
> OpenBSD location, ftp://ftp2.fr.openbsd.org under the pub and the mach
> directories.
>
> In all actuality I first discovered the Mach code base and the binary
> at the Flux Group offices of the Utah Computer Sciences site. They
> shut that down around the turn of the century. And once at the Arizona
> site for their computer sciences site. I believe it is gone as is the
> CMU one.
>
> And Jason I found your Gunkies Wiki with a link to your incredible
> storage site.
> -----
> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
>
> On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 12:45 AM Chris Hanson
> <cmhanson at eschatologist.net> wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know whether CMU’s local Mach sources have been preserved?
> >
> > I’m not just talking about MK84.default.tar.Z  and so on, I’m talking about all the bits of Mach that were used on cluster systems on campus, prior to the switch to vendor UNIX.
> >
> > I know at least one person who had complete MacMach sources for the last version, but threw out the backup discs with the sources in the process of moving. So I know they exist.
> >
> > If nothing else, CMU did provide other sites their UX source package (eg UX42), which was the BSD single server environment. So I know that has to be out there, somewhere.
> >
> >   — Chris
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone


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