Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!yale!husc6!encore!boykin From: boykin@encore.com (Joseph Boykin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore Subject: Re: process arguments Message-ID: <12385@encore.Encore.COM> Date: 6 Aug 90 18:47:56 GMT References: <82689@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <9632@xenna.Xylogics.COM> Sender: news@Encore.COM Reply-To: boykin@encore.com Organization: Encore Computer Corp. Lines: 39 In article <82689@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, jrm@mad.cis.ohio-state.edu (John R. Mudd) writes: > In article <9632@xenna.Xylogics.COM> John Robert LoVerso writes: > >An alternative would be to run MACH on your Multimax, which, for all > >pratical purposes, is a superset of BSD. As such, it provides the same > >kmem abilities as 4.3BSD. > > True, but when will Mach release 0.6 *ever* be released? It was supposedly > to be out in Q1 '90. I think it's wonderful that Encore offers Mach as an > alternative to Umax, but these interminable delays are starting to get > annoying. I'm starting to get the feeling that no one at Encore besides > the Ultramax/Mach group cares anymore. Mach 0.6 is currently slated for release by the end of this quarter (late September). This date hasn't change (at least by very much) for quite some time (at least for the past six months). As for who cares... Hard to say. Part of the problem is that few of our customers who run Mach tell their sales people that they want this stuff. If there is no perceived need, the company certainly isn't going to put lots of people (pronounced money) behind the Mach effort. So, if you want those revs to keep coming, call your favorite sales-oid and bug *him/her* for 0.6! I love pressure from the field! For those who don't know, 0.6 is based on CMU Release 2.5 and has a parallelized Unix file system, NFS file system, network, tty, etc. subsystems. It will also include new utilities in the new directory layout. It is/was 0.6 which the OSF/1 parallelization effort was based on. ---- Joseph Boykin Manager, Mach OS Development Encore Computer Corp Treasurer, IEEE Computer Society Internet: boykin@encore.com Phone: 508-460-0500 x2720