Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!giza.cis.ohio-state.edu!mudd-j From: mudd-j@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (John R. Mudd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent Subject: Re: Dynix licensing Message-ID: <64789@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 4 Oct 89 23:27:05 GMT References: <6006@wolfen.cc.uow.oz> <294@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: John R. Mudd Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer & Information Science Lines: 28 In article pcg@thor.cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes: >You might want instead to >investigate on getting MACH sources for the Sequent, especially >if you are a University. Apparently, if you do it right, you can >even get it outside the USA. Contact the MACH people at CMU! Incorrect. CMU, with the help of some Sequent developers, ported a version to the Balance some years ago, but it is an old kernel version and was never (for the most part) released externally. As far as I know, CMU has not done a port to the Symmetry, and given that mt. Xinu is taking over commercial distribution of Mach, I wouldn't expect such a thing to occur. The last time I talked to anybody at Sequent about Mach, the answer I got was that, although certain parts of Mach (like the VM system) would be explored, Sequent was quite happy with Dynix. I don't believe that Mach sources are allowed to be exportedbinaries I'm not sure about. Somebody from mt. Xinu can enlighten us to that regard. ... John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ John R. Mudd mudd-j@cis.ohio-state.edu Department of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University 2036 Neil Avenue, Columbus, Ohio, USA 43210-1277