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From: larry@belch.Berkeley.EDU (Larry Foard)
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Subject: Re: Mach for i386
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Date: 4 Oct 90 18:42:15 GMT
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In article <8785@helios.TAMU.EDU> cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu (Chuck Herrick) writes:
>In article <1990Oct3.162958.28562@cs.cmu.edu> mrt@MRT.MACH.CS.CMU.EDU 
>	(Mary Thompson) writes:
[unavailability of mach deleted]
>
>	Well, don't that beat all... the little people need not apply?
>	One wonders who the market for i386 Mach will be down the
>	road... and one hopes all will take note.
>-- 
>	Chuck Herrick				cnh5730@calvin.tamu.edu

I agree I am working on UNIX application software for the 386, I would have
loved to have used MACH but the makers of MACH seem to have no interest in
making it available to "real" people. I can't understand why some one goes
through the effort to write a revolutionary OS and then keeps it locked in a
closet because they won't take the effort needed to get it out to the public.
The PC market is being taken over by Windows 3.0 and Sys V unix, if MACH
should ever become available to the general public, it may be to late, 
every one will already have software for SYS V. Every one seems to talk about
the AT&T source license as though they grow on trees, maybe they do if you work
for a multi billion dollar corporation, but what about small companys and
individuals?

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