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From: bwb@uunet!unhd (Brent Benson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: MACH kernel - source become pd?
Keywords: MACH
Message-ID: <1990Oct18.135305.23041@uunet!unhd>
Date: 18 Oct 90 13:53:05 GMT
References: <450@dill.UUCP>
Sender: bwb@unh.edu (Brent Benson)
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Organization: Univ. of New Hampshire CS Dept.
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In article <450@dill.UUCP> tilley@ukfca1 (Jonathan Tilley) writes:
>Last night I was looking through an old copy of GNU's Bulletin (June 1989)
>and I read a piece about CMU's MACH kernel.
>The article 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?
>
>Jonathan Tilley

It's stable, but not free of AT&T code.
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