Re: Shocking News from Apple.
teunis (teunis@mauve.computersupportcentre.com)
Tue, 4 Nov 1997 11:58:20 -0700 (MST)
> In the past, people always put an existing operating system on top of
> Mach. CMU themselves always used BSD, AFAIK. Because of the BSD
> copyright problems they could never release that to the
> public. Another port, Lites, put 4.4Lite on top of Mach 3. The OSF RI
> has been using both OSF/1 and Linux. All these systems are known as
> single-server, because the traditional OS features all reside in on Mach
> task.
>
> There is only one true multi-server system on top of Mach, the Hurd.
>
> To me, it seems very possible that Rhapsody is 4.4BSD based.
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
> P.S. Don't tell me this is not about Linux. I know it is not :-)
I just thought of a connection though:
A multiserver kernel is one that serves multiple OS's (or OS
flavours) at once, right?
Doesn't that make Linux multiserver?
(dosemu + maybe others? :)
[wine doesn't count as it actually emulates the environment rather than
providing an environment the OS can run within...]
(I suppose that would rule ibcs out too...)
Couldn't Linux run a Mach kernel?
It would be easier than that multiprocessor Win95 system mentioned :)
I wonder what paging/VM environment Mach would need? <grin>
G'day, eh? :)
- Teunis