[TUHS] CMU Mach sources?

[Ben Greenfield]

> On Jun 27, 2019, at 12:01 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at orthanc.ca> wrote:
> 
> Larry McVoy writes:
> 
>> OK, I'll bite.  Go read the source in the FreeBSD tree, which has been 
>> reduced in size by 60% according to someone on the team.  Then come
>> back and draw me a picture of what it does.
> 
> Larry, it seems to me your argument is the Mach code should never
> have been incorporated into BSD in the first place.  That's fine,
> but it's not the Mach developers fault that happened, so maybe you
> should lay off them for not writing their research software to a
> production shop standard they were never a part of?


 My understanding is that the  BSD layer was a requirement from DARPA. DARPA wanted a “normal” interface to the kernel and BSD was that interface.


> 
> --lyndon