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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!nic.umass.edu!ymir.cs.umass.edu!doyle From: doyle@cs.umass.edu (Jim Doyle) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: Q: Status of 386bsd Mach-3.0 server Date: 8 Apr 1993 19:35:04 GMT Organization: CS Dept., Umass-Amherst Lines: 38 Message-ID: <1q1up8INNi50@ymir.cs.umass.edu> References: <1pp2s1$4nv@tricky.wft.stack.urc.tue.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: gaia.cs.umass.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9] Michael Brouwer (michael@wft.stack.urc.tue.nl) wrote: : Kan anyone enlight me on the status of the rumored 386bsd server for Mach-3.0. : A friend of mine and I would like to start doing some development in this area : provided help is needed. CMU halted release of the BSD328-derived Unix server shortly after the filing of the USL lawsuit to avoid being brought into litigation. Work has continued on the server inside of CMU ; I've spoken with Mary Thompson and she says that CMU wants to make it available however they are waiting final approval from the vice-provost and University lawyers before doing so. I have heard little details as to the status of the server - no called - BSDSS5 other than alot of bugs have been cleaned up and it is available for the MIPS and i386/486 platform. I have also contacted a grad student at UCF that is working on a Linux single server for Mach 3.0. There appears to be alot of interest in reviving Mach 3.0 as an operating system base for a 'free Unix' ; when this happens - alot of platform specific work in Linux or 386BSD can be leveraged into a User-space implementation that will run not only on the i386/486 but also the other free platforms that Mach supports. Carnegie-Mellon is now distributing Mach 3.0 on the following hardware platforms: i386/486 - ISA, PS/2 , Sequent Symmetry 68020/030 - Sun 3 88000 - Omron Luna MIPS R3000 - DECStation 2100/3100/5000 series VAX - MicroVAX I,II,6000 series, 8000 series ALPHA - DEC AXP 4000 series SPARC - Sun 4 ; SPARCstation I and II compliant machines PA-RISC - Some 700 series boxes .... Jim Doyle