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From: dsmythe@cup.portal.com (dave l smythe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: X Windows TT
Message-ID: <24385@cup.portal.com>
Date: 23 Nov 89 07:32:02 GMT
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>Anyone do any work with Mach?
>I wonder how hard, probably REAL *8^), it would be to port?
>Thinkin' in particular of the TT, when it & real Un*x is available.
Well, given that virtual memory and other wonderful things are available
on the '030, it shouldn't be too difficult.  My understanding is that the
only reason that Mach isn't totally free yet is that it relies upon BSD,
which still has v7 code in it.  I also was lead to believe that many folks
(GNU ones, supposedly) are working to "free" the rest of BSD, so the whole
shmeer can be given away.  If this all works out, GNU may end up being based
on Mach.  There hasn't been a GNU bulletin since this summer, so they may
have made some progrress since then...

>Is Mach PD?
I don't know what the restrictions are.  Probably will end up being something
like those that accompany X11, I would guess.

>Ed June

Dave Smythe
dsmythe@cup.portal.com