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From: chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively)
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Subject: Re: alt.macgnu
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Date: 1 Nov 89 17:42:53 GMT
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In article <20338@ut-emx.UUCP> think@ut-emx.UUCP (s j moon) writes:
> > 
> > I would like to see FSF software running on mac... but under MacMach, 
not
> > the Mac OS.
> > 
> > Hopefully, MacMach will help break down the wall between the system 
> > software and the programmer that Apple has forced on all of us 
> > ("we will tell you  what you NEED to know and no more").
> > 
> 
>  What is MacMach ? Could you tell us details of it?
>    thanks.   s j moon

Sure.  What's loosely known as "MacMach" is Carnegie-Mellon University's 
port of their Mach OS kernel (and presumably the rest of the OS) to the 
Macintosh II family of computers.  Mach is a very tight UNIX kernel which, 
with the appropriate layers above it, can (and generally does) maintain OS 
service-level compatibility with 4.3 BSD UNIX, but it has several other 
nifty features as well, such as lightweight processes, more 
general/powerful IPC, and the like.  More information can be had by 
reading comp.os.mach.

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