Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!bbn!jr@bbn.com From: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: My ramblings on the NeXT machine Message-ID: <32926@bbn.COM> Date: 1 Dec 88 15:17:52 GMT References: <26812@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <27965@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <4501@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <2330@ficc.uu.net> Sender: news@bbn.COM Reply-To: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson) Distribution: na Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation, Cambridge MA Lines: 16 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. -- /jr jr@bbn.com or bbn!jr