emv@a.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti) (10/23/88)
What's this newsgroup for? I haven't seen any traffic for a month. Given the amount of discussion about Mach, I'd be tempted to go one for one, remove comp.os.v and create comp.os.mach. --Ed
jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) (10/24/88)
Comp.os.v is a newsgroup for discussions of the V operating system, developed by David Cheriton's group at Stanford. It is not a widely used system, even at Stanford, and is not likely to be; it's really a vehicle for the development of new concepts in distributed processing. It runs primarily on original Stanford-built Sun I systems, back-ended by VAXen. John Nagle
rfpfeifle@violet.waterloo.edu (Ron Pfeifle) (10/24/88)
In article <1270@mailgw.cc.umich.edu> emv@mailgw.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti) writes: >What's this newsgroup for? I haven't seen any traffic for a month. > >Given the amount of discussion about Mach, I'd be tempted to go one >for one, remove comp.os.v and create comp.os.mach. > >--Ed This would be the right thing to do if V was a Unixish based system (maybe), but it isn't. It has different basis (SSR message passing). (I'd like to see more traffic, too, though, because I want to learn how things are going with V. A synopsis of recent developments might be nice for we "lurkers"). Ron
bc@halley.UUCP (Bill Crews) (10/25/88)
In article <9265@watdragon.waterloo.edu> rfpfeifle@violet.waterloo.edu (Ron Pfeifle) writes: >In article <1270@mailgw.cc.umich.edu> emv@mailgw.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti) writes: >>Given the amount of discussion about Mach, I'd be tempted to go one >>for one, remove comp.os.v and create comp.os.mach. > >This would be the right thing to do if V was a Unixish based system (maybe), >but it isn't. It has different basis (SSR message passing). What does the Unixishness of V or of Mach have to do with their validity as comp.os newsgroups? The interesting parts of Mach are the nonUnix parts, mostly. I vote for more traffic on V and a separate comp.os.mach newsgroup. Probably shouldn't be debated here, though. -bc -- Bill Crews bc@halley.UUCP (512) 244-8350 ..!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!halley!bc