scherrer@mtxinu.COM (Deborah Scherrer) (08/23/89)
As Rick Rashid mentioned in a recent posting, mt Xinu is
working with Carnegie Mellon to provide a standard distribu-
tion of CMU's Mach and its related software environment to
the educational and technical community. Because this
release is funded and arranged under a contract with CMU
(and DARPA), it is not designed to be a commercial product,
but rather a source distribution similar in scope and pric-
ing to the Berkeley BSD releases.
The CMU contract specifies that mt Xinu will expand,
develop, release-engineer, and distribute CMU's research
version of Mach. There will be (at least) 2 yearly
releases, with the first targeted for late January. The
first release will be based on Mach 2.5 and will include
Sun's NFS (as integrated into Mach by NeXT); the 4.3/Tahoe
interface, environment, and utilities; Tahoe TCP/IP
improvements; and BSD disk labels. A subsequent distribu-
tion will most likely include support for the POSIX 1003.1
interface, as well as ANSI C support.
In addition to Mach, the distribution will include the
Andrew File System, Andrew Tool Kit, XWindows, the Camelot
transaction processing system, Cornell's ISIS distributed
programming environment, some FSF utilities, and other
related software of interest to the research community.
The platforms to be supported on the January 1990 release
include
DEC Vaxes
IBM RT PC
Sun 3s
Additional platforms being considered for later releases
include PMAX, 386, and Mac II.
mt Xinu is working closely with Rick and other researchers
at CMU to assure that new features are available for the
release as soon as possible.
Although the pricing is desired to be roughly akin to BSD
pricing, there will be required royalties to SUN and Tran-
sarc (for AFS). An AT&T source license will also be
required. Other licenses (Sun NFS, etc.) will (hopefully)
be bundled into mt Xinu's license, to make it simple to
obtain the distribution.
For more information on the distribution, contact:
mtxinu-mach@mtxinu.comwerner@nikhefk.UUCP (Werner Vogels) (09/22/89)
In article <835@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> verber@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Mark A. Verber) writes: >I am sure there are people out there that can give you an "offical" answer ...... >The agreement between CMU and Mt Xinu is that CMU will continue to do Mach >releases to sites that won't bother CMU once they are given a tape, i.e. >people who know what they are doing and can handle beta software. This >will be done so quick changes can get out the door to researchers. Since ..... >Mark A. Verber >System Programmer, Physics Department, Ohio State University >verber@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu We are a site that meets these requirements and we would be very interested in setting up mach on a set of our sun an ibm rt workstations. Who or what should we contact at CMU to obtain the tape(s)? (I'm posting this to the net because I think more sites are interested). Thanks in advance, Werner H.P. Vogels Software Expertise Centrum Haagse Hogeschool, Intersector Informatica tel: +31 70 618598 Louis Couperusplein 2-19, 2514 HP Den Haag E-mail: ..!mcvax!nikhefk!werner The Netherlands or ..!mcvax!hhinsi!werner
scherrer@mtxinu.COM (Deborah Scherrer) (07/21/90)
As Rick Rashid mentioned in a recent posting, mt Xinu is working with Carnegie Mellon to provide a standard distribution of CMU's Mach and its related software environment to the educational and technical community. Because this release is funded and arranged under a contract with CMU (and DARPA), it is not designed to be a commercial product, but rather a source distribution similar in scope to the Berkeley BSD releases. We've done a significant amount of release-engineering and integration of packages for the Mach environment. The first release is based on Mach 2.5, is bootable on naked hardware, and incorporates most of 4.3-tahoe, including the TCP/IP improvements and BSD disk labels. Basically, this distribution provides: 2.5 Mach kernel, with NFS & BSD-tahoe enhancements Transarc's AFS X11R4 most of the 4.3-tahoe BSD release Andrew Tool Kit Camelot transaction processing system Cornell's ISIS distributed programming environment most of the FSF utilities a few other nifty things The platforms we support include Sun 3s IBM RT PC DEC Vaxes The i386 platform will be available in late summer, and, subject to licensing arrangements, the Mac II soon after that. We are working closely with Rick and other researchers at CMU to assure that new features are available for the release as soon as possible. The distribution does require an AT&T source license, but we've managed to bundle all the other necessary licenses into one (a neat trick...), so you don't have to hassle with Sun, Transarc, etc. And, yes, all but AFS and Camelot are exportable (and we're working on those). If you'd like more information contact: mtxinu-mach@mtxinu.com 415-644-0146