[TUHS] CMU Mach sources?

Chris Hanson cmhanson at eschatologist.net
Thu Jun 27 11:26:50 AEST 2019


On Jun 26, 2019, at 6:02 PM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:

> Anyone who has read the code would have a hard time reconciling their

> code with the picture they painted in their papers.  And indeed, the
> Mach supporters have said nothing about the code, other than to say it
> is a research system and you can't expect clean code.  

Then I’ll say it: I did find the Mach code plenty clean *for what it was trying to accomplish* — providing the layering and abstractions necessary to make extensible what had traditionally been kernel code, including allowing it to be developed out-of-tree.

  -- Chris



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