In message <20000310153706.C14091@sable.ox.ac.uk>, Malcolm Beattie writes:
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| Paul Jakma writes:
| > On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
| > > Remember MACH? Who even uses it today, or Chorus for that matter?
| >
| > correct me if i'm wrong, but aren't all the SysVR4 derived unices
| > (T64/IRIX/Solaris/Unixware) using Mach based kernels? And MacOS X too?
|
| We had one of the very first SMP AlphaServers: OSF/1 T3.0-1 was the
| version ("T" for "Field Test"). After years and years of serious
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Yes, he has it backwards: SVR4 was based on original Unix, whereas OSF/1 is
derived from Mach.
| Solaris was never Mach based as far as I know. MacOS X is, I thought,
| BSD 4.4 based. I've never got the impression that IRIX was Mach-ish
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MacOS X is a 4.4BSD single server running under Mach.
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