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From: scherrer@mtxinu.COM (Deborah Scherrer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.mach
Subject: Mach distribution
Message-ID: <1293@mtxinu.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 90 19:49:13 GMT
Reply-To: scherrer@mtxinu.COM (Deborah Scherrer)
Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley
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As Rick Rashid mentioned in a recent posting, mt Xinu is working
with Carnegie Mellon to provide a standard distribution of CMU's Mach
and its related software environment to the educational and
technical community.   Because this release is funded and arranged
under a contract with CMU (and DARPA), it is not designed to be a
commercial product, but rather a source distribution similar in scope
to the Berkeley BSD releases. 

We've done a significant amount of release-engineering and integration
of packages for the Mach environment.  The first release is based on
Mach 2.5, is bootable on naked hardware, and incorporates most of
4.3-tahoe, including the TCP/IP improvements and BSD disk labels.
Basically, this distribution provides:
	2.5 Mach kernel, with NFS & BSD-tahoe enhancements
	Transarc's AFS
	X11R4
	most of the 4.3-tahoe BSD release
	Andrew Tool Kit
	Camelot transaction processing system
	Cornell's ISIS distributed programming environment
	most of the FSF utilities
	a few other nifty things

The platforms we support include
	    Sun 3s
	    IBM RT PC
	    DEC Vaxes
The i386 platform will be available in late summer, and, subject to
licensing arrangements, the Mac II soon after that.

We are working closely with Rick and other researchers at CMU
to assure that new features are available for the release as soon as
possible.

The distribution does require an AT&T source license, but we've
managed to bundle all the other necessary licenses into one (a
neat trick...), so you don't have to hassle with Sun, Transarc,
etc.  And, yes, all but AFS and Camelot are exportable (and
we're working on those).  If you'd like more information contact:
	mtxinu-mach@mtxinu.com
	415-644-0146