On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Paul Jakma wrote:
> 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?
goodness, are you ever wrong. Actually there is a very strong correlation
between failed computers and the use of the mach (or OSF/1) kernel:
BBN TC2000 (they actually back-patched mach to 4.3bsd, mach was so bad)
KSR (12 Meg of OS memory on a 16-Meg COMA node is a bad idea)
NeXT
Intel Paragon
to name just a few. Mach has a way with computers, it seems.
There are lots of companies that put time and effort into OSF/1 (nee
mach) that regretted it later as well. See IBM, HP, DEC, ...
ron
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