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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: MACH kernel - source become pd?
Message-ID: <1990Oct15.221445.10438@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 90 22:14:45 GMT

In article <450@dill.UUCP> tilley@ukfca1 (Jonathan Tilley) writes:
>... said that once the MACH kernel was completely free of ATT stuff and
>was stable, it was going to be available free. I know that the kernel is now
>stable - NeXT has it as their operating system, so does anyone know if or
>when MACH will become free?

Note that there is an "and" in the first statement.  Mach may be "stable"
in some sense of the word -- CMU probably wouldn't agree -- but it is by
no means de-AT&Tized yet.

And incidentally, even when the kernel is free and clear, there are still
just a few :-) utility programs that need work too.  The kernel (even using
"kernel" in the normal Unix sense) isn't a lot of good by itself.
-- 
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