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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 vs. Solaris 2.0 (BSD vs AT&T)
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In article <id.S38V.GYG@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
>In article <1ehqvhINNl3b@morrow.stanford.edu> karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish) writes:
>> Funny, I had thought that OSF/1 was based on Mach and the
>> 4.3BSD superstructure atop the Mach kernel.  Its reason for
>> existence is to provide an alternative to System V.
>
>OSF/2 is to be based on Mach. OSF/1 is based on AIX, which is licensed from
>System V. I don't recall which release, but it's before 3.0. What actually
>goes into AIX is a different matter, and it's quite unlike BSD or SysV by
>all reports.

BZZZT!

Excerpted from:

Program Loading in OSF/1

Larry W. Allen,
Harminder G. Singh,
Kevin G. Wallace (on sabbatical from HP),
Melanie B. Weaver

Open Software Foundation

============================================================
.... Introduction and goals ...

	We designed and implemented a new program loader to alleviate
	these restrictions as part of the development effort for OSF/1,
	the Open Software Foundation's XPG3-conformant, Mach-based
							^^^^^^^^^^
	operating system.

============================================================

OSF/1 is based on Mach.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@icarus.weber.edu
					terry_lambert@novell.com
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