edwardm@hpcuhc.HP.COM (Edward McClanahan) (11/15/89)
In case you hadn't seen it and would like an introduction to Mach, Avadis Tevanian Jr. and Ben Smith have an article in the November '89 Byte magazine entitled "Mach: The Model For Future Unix". The article is written in a fairly introductory style, but does cover the following: Great Ideas from a Small Team Tasks and Threads Ports, Port Sets, and Messages The Memory Object Virtual Memory Open Memory Management The Mach Kernel and IPC Exception Handling vs. Signal Handling System Layers OS/2 and Mach The Future of Mach ...and a sidebar on Mach on the NeXT Cube =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Edward McClanahan Hewlett Packard Company Mail Stop 47UE -or- edwardm%hpda@hplabs.hp.com 19447 Pruneridge Avenue Cupertino, CA 95014 Phone: (408)447-5651
Rick.Rashid@CS.CMU.EDU (11/17/89)
There is also a "Mach to the Rescue" section in the VM in Unix article in the same Byte. You should always keep in mind that anything you read in such magazines is of questionable accuracy, though. In the "Mach to the Rescue" section it states (among other things) that: 1) Mach can provide virtual memory support on machines without VM hardware and 2) Mach VM was designed for "undefined parallel processors" I remains to be seen how we were able to do these things, I assume we will discover that in an upcoming Byte issue.... -Rick