Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!naim From: naim@eecs.nwu.edu (Naim Abdullah) Newsgroups: comp.os.mach Subject: Re: Query: Status of Mach cleanout? Message-ID: <12720001@eecs.nwu.edu> Date: 19 Aug 89 11:58:51 GMT References: <2314@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA Lines: 38 Thos Sumner writes: >Some time ago there were postings indicating the Mach project was >actively pursuing the replacement of the AT&T code in the BSD >compatibility component so that a full kernel source could be >distributed without requiring AT&T licenses. > >The target date was supposed to be June 1989 in the last message >I saw. Can anyone provide authoritative information on the status >of this project? I cannot provide "authoritative information", but in the GNU bulletin distributed in the June '89 USENIX by the Free Software Foundation, it says: > * Kernel > > We hope to use the MACH message-passing kernel being developed at > CMU. The current distributed version of MACH is not free because > it contains code from BSD of AT&T origin. However, the MACH > developers have been working to separate this code from the kernel > and they now say that they have a first version of this running in > alpha test. Once this is stable, the MACH kernel is supposed to > become free. > > Should MACH not become available, then we will start the kernel > with either MIT's TRIX kernel or Berkeley's Sprite system. > I hope this alpha testing finishes soon, and the freed MACH kernel can be shipped to FSF and the world! Naim Abdullah Dept. of EECS, Northwestern University Internet: naim@eecs.nwu.edu Uucp: {oddjob, chinet, att}!nucsrl!naim