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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend)
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Subject: Re: New MINIX available (UNIX clone with full source code)
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In article <7571@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>Mach is not a clone of UNIX.  It IS UNIX.  The Mach 2.5 kernel contains
>most of the 4.3 BSD inside of it, which in turn, cotains thousands of
>lines of AT&T code.  You cannot get Mach if you do not have an AT&T
>source license.


This will not be true in the very near future.  The next major version
of Mach will be free of AT&T code, thereby making it publicly available
to those of us w/o > $100K to spend on a UNIX source license (what
a Sys V license costs last time I priced them).

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