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From: shore@mtxinu.COM (Melinda Shore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: MACH stripped from AT&T code ?
Message-ID: <1329@mtxinu.UUCP>
Date: 17 Aug 90 01:06:57 GMT
References: <3229@uniol.UUCP>
Reply-To: shore@mtxinu.com (Melinda Shore)
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In article <3229@uniol.UUCP> moeller@uniol.UUCP (Klaus Moeller) writes:
>It was said somewhere( I don't know where) that the MACH Kernel
>contains no AT&T code anymore.

This is a *very* common misconception.  The current Mach kernel
contains significant amounts of BSD code and requires an AT&T
license.  The 3.0 Mach kernel will be free of AT&T code, but how
useful it will be to the average user without an environment,
filesystem, device drivers, etc. (all would require licenses) is
left as an exercise for the reader.

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Melinda Shore                             shore@mtxinu.com
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