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From: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson)
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Subject: Re: My ramblings on the NeXT machine
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Date: 1 Dec 88 15:17:52 GMT
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In-reply-to: karl@ficc.uu.net (karl lehenbauer #)

In article <2330@ficc.uu.net>, karl@ficc (karl lehenbauer #) writes:
>Well, Mach is really nothing more (or less) than an OS kernel providing 
>multitasking, memory management and interprocess communications.  Efforts 
>are under way at CMU to move 4.3 BSD out of the kernel.  Then other operating 
>systems could be ported to run under Mach, gaining Mach's machine-independent
>virtual memory management and multiprocessing capabilities as well as the
>potential of greater concurrency in the OS...

I love it!  Mach : Unix :: VM : MVS.  So now maybe Unix can be
considered a *real* operating system!  Except that the virtual machine
provided by Mach is much, much nicer to the client OS than that
provided by VM (== generic S/370 "hardware").  Liberal smileys; I know
this is less than accurate really.
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/jr
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