songer@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu (Christopher M Songer) (10/09/90)
As I understand it from the previous discussion, most of a running
system based on MACH heavily depends on vendor developed code and so a license
for the complete source is going to be too high priced for an individual.
One person had the presence of mind to comment that if one wants to play
with MACH, buying a NeXT is probably the best bet.
I am likely to do just that. (Though not for MACH explicitly.) One
of the things I want to do with my NeXT is write system performance monitors.
Doing this usually requires pulling symbols out of the running kernal.
(At least it does in SUN OS) The only way I have ever found to identify the
proper symbols is examine the kernal source.
As a result, I am wondering just how much of the MACH kernal can be
dristributed freely and if one can simply ftp the vendor independent portion
from cmu. Thanks,
Chris Songer I work for ECN, I certainly don't
songer@ecn.purdue.edu speak for it.