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From: Rick.Rashid@cs.cmu.edu
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Subject: Re: Request for basic (Mach) information
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Date: 18 Aug 89 20:06:39 GMT
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Pardon the slow response, but I only recently discovered that this
list had become active.
Information on Mach licensing and distribution and technical
reports can be obtained by writing to:
Mach Project
c/o Rick Rashid
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
or
mach@cs.cmu.edu
Current commercial products I am aware of are from NeXT,
Encore, Evans&Sutherland and BBN.
Mt Xinu has announced that it will be distributing commercial
versions of Mach on several architectures beginning early
next year (in much the way it has distributed BSD Unix).
CMU distributes Mach for the VAX, Sun 3 and IBM RT
architectures. Information on specific models, etc. can be
obtained with the general Mach information packet.
The current release is referred to as Mach Release 2.
We are about to begin general distribution of Mach
Release 2.5 (a number of Universities and companies
already have early releases of 2.5). There is a license
for Mach from CMU and you will need a Berkeley
license to get a tape from us. There is no distribution
or license fee paid to CMU, however.
At CMU Mach runs on VAXen (uni and multiprocessors),
DEC 3100s, Multimaxes, Sun 3s, Sun 4s, 386s, IBM RTs,
IBM 370s and Macintosh IIs. Ports have also been done to
a number of other machines by groups outside CMU.
CMU has limited capacity to distribute software so we don't
distribute Mach for all systems. We are, however, willing
to provide Mach free to any manufacturer who is interested
in distributing it for their own machines. If you want Mach
for a machine for which there is a port but no current
distributor, you should talk to your salesman or corporate
representative.
I should also point out that CMU maintains a mailing list
for information about Mach. You can get on this list by
sending mail to info-mach-request@cs.cmu.edu. The list
itself is info-mach@cs.cmu.edu. An interface for
external management of multiprocessor scheduling was the
most recent topic on that list.
-Rick Rashid