Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!snorkelwacker!ira.uka.de!smurf!gopnbg!tmpmbx!einoed!utopia!scuzzy!src
From: src@scuzzy.mbx.sub.org (Heiko Blume)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: MACH stripped from AT&T code ?
Message-ID: <1990Aug25.235928.815@scuzzy.mbx.sub.org>
Date: 25 Aug 90 23:59:28 GMT
References: <3229@uniol.UUCP> <1329@mtxinu.UUCP>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Scuzzy Research Center (SRC)
Lines: 26

shore@mtxinu.COM (Melinda Shore) writes:

>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.

as far as i know the Free Software Foundation will take the 3.0 Mach kernel
and add sprite's (distributed) file system etc to make up a working system.
i also *read* that the 3.0 Mach kernel is in alpha test (again: no warranty
on this statement).
hopefully thw Mach people will post a manual about how to write device
drivers for Mach, so other people may contribute drivers!!

i'm really looking forward to a GNU OS!!
-- 
Heiko Blume c/o Diakite   blume@scuzzy.mbx.sub.org    FAX   (+49 30) 882 50 65
Kottbusser Damm 28        blume@netmbx.UUCP           VOICE (+49 30) 691 88 93
D-1000 Berlin 61          blume@netmbx.de             TELEX 184174 intro d
scuzzy Any ACU,e 19200 6919520 ogin:--ogin: nuucp ssword: nuucp