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From: Randall.Dean@CS.CMU.EDU
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Subject: Re: OS kernel sources
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Date: 15 Nov 90 18:11:46 GMT
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> Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.mach: 14-Nov-90 Re: OS kernel sources
> Michael I. Bushnell@chur (1988)

> [ lots deleted ]

> To my knowledge, no one (including CMU) other than the FSF is
> considering implementing a free server on top of the Mach microkernel.
> --
>     Michael I. Bushnell      \     This above all; to thine own self be
> true
> LIBERTE, EGALITE, FRATERNITE  \    And it must follow, as the night the
> day,
>    mike@unmvax.cs.unm.edu     /\   Thou canst not be false to any man.
>         CARPE DIEM           /  \  Farewell:  my blessing season this in
> thee!


The current starting base the FSF is considering for the free
server was a FREE server written at CMU called Poe.  Poe is
a simple unix server that currently runs csh, edits, comiples,
boots other servers, etc.  It currently only writes files to
its own VM.  It has no network, X, socket, etc support.  It is
nowhere near distribution quality (it only has about 2 man months
of work into after all).  We use it as a bootstrapping device
for our single and multi server environments.  CMU not only
considerd it, we did it first :-)