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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.development:442 comp.os.mach:2691 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!terra.stack.urc.tue.nl!tricky.wft.stack.urc.tue.nl!usenet From: michael@wft.stack.urc.tue.nl (Michael Brouwer) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.mach Subject: Re: Q: Status of 386bsd Mach-3.0 server Date: 9 Apr 1993 05:23:34 GMT Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands Lines: 32 Message-ID: <1q318m$3di@tricky.wft.stack.urc.tue.nl> References: <1q1up8INNi50@ymir.cs.umass.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: tar.wft.stack.urc.tue.nl In article <1q1up8INNi50@ymir.cs.umass.edu> doyle@cs.umass.edu (Jim Doyle) writes: > 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. > > 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. Not only that, but mach will enable you to run different OSes simultainiously. There already is a publicly availible dos emulation server (mdos) for i386 machines running mach 3.0. > Carnegie-Mellon is now distributing Mach 3.0 on the following hardware > platforms: How many of you out there would be interested in switching from 386bsd to mach 3.0/bsdss based development? It might be worth putting together a binary distribution based on mach/bsdss and 386bsd binutils. There is a 386bsd based mach server available for ftp. This is version bsdss4. There are still some bugs in here (mostly signal handeling stuff). Michael PS: Is there already a license free binary distribution of a mach 3.0 kernel (with poe) for i386 systems? This would make the bsdss bootstrap a lot easier.