[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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