Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!skat.usc.edu!joec From: joec@skat.usc.edu (Joe S. Chen) Newsgroups: comp.os.mach Subject: Mach development status Keywords: mach,386,realtime,posix Message-ID: <19251@usc.edu> Date: 18 Aug 89 04:30:48 GMT Sender: news@usc.edu Reply-To: joec@skat.usc.edu (Joe S. Chen) Followup-To: comp.os.mach Distribution: na Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 38 Hello, I am greatly interested in all current development status related with Mach. Below are few that I have accumulated from folks at CMU. If anyone on the net (or from CMU) can provide more precise information, please don't hold back. Thanks. POSIX-compliant: folks at UC Berkeley are massaging 4.3BSD interface to be POSIX-compliant. If completed, moving it onto Mach should not be difficult. Real-time Mach (RT MACH): being developed. What is its test/release schedule? Will it comply to the POSIX real-time extension? Ada/Ada Runtime: Ada task/runtime should map very well to Mach's thread/task concept. Hope the kernel's control of threads solves the typical Ada task priority inversion problem. Last I heard, only the Runtime environment is running on Mach, not the Ada compiler. 80386 port: I heard Intel Corp. has ported Mach to '386 running on the standard PC/AT backplane. Multibus II/Microchannel: Anyone know any work in progress in supporting these two communication protocols? Well, if all of the aforementioned features are fully implemented AND tested by mid-next year, it certainly can be a great candidate for the computers onboard the Space Station. Joe S. Chen jchen@pollux.usc.edu {sdcrdcf,cit-vax}!usc!pollux!jchen "Space Station Freedom: Key to America's Future in Space."