bpalmer@bbn.com (Brian Palmer) (09/12/89)
I know this was asked a month or so ago but I never saw a reply. A rumor was going around that: (I'll ask this in parts) 1. CMU was rewriting the ATT code in the kernel. 2. Mach would be released in the "public domain" in September. (Anyone at CMU care to comment?) 3. The Free Software Foundation (ie RMS and friends) were going to use the Mach kernel. Can any of this be true? ( ... maybe I just dreamed it all. ) Brian bpalmer@bbn.com
craig@wave4.webo.dg.com (Craig Presson) (09/13/89)
In article <45443@bbn.COM> bpalmer@bbn.com (Brian Palmer) writes: > > >I know this was asked a month or so ago but I never saw a reply. A rumor >was going around that: (I'll ask this in parts) > > 1. CMU was rewriting the ATT code in the kernel. > > 2. Mach would be released in the "public domain" in September. > (Anyone at CMU care to comment?) > > 3. The Free Software Foundation (ie RMS and friends) were going > to use the Mach kernel. FACT: The following appeared in the January 89 _GNU's Bulletin_ in the GNU Project Status Report: (BEGIN FSF Copyrighted material) * Kernel We hope to use the MACH message-passing kernel being developed at CMU. The current version of MACH is not free, and cannot be, because it contains the file system code from BSD. However, the MACH developers say that all this will be replaced with free code, or at least moved into user processes, and MACH will be free then. This version of MACH is supposed to be released in a few months (as of December 1988). If MACH does not become available, then We will probably develop the GNU kernel starting with either MIT's TRIX kernel or Berkeley's Sprite system. (END FSF Copyrighted material) > >Can any of this be true? ( ... maybe I just dreamed it all. ) > >Brian >bpalmer@bbn.com > "Lewis F. Richardson ... studied fluid turbulence by throwing a sack of white parsnips into the Cape Cod Canal, and asked in a 1926 paper, 'Does the Wind Possess a Velocity?'" -- Gleick, _Chaos_ craig@wave4.webo.dg.com Craig Presson, Data General, Westborough Mass. dg/ux development