Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au!augean!sibyl!ian From: ian@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ (Ian Dall) Newsgroups: comp.os.mach Subject: Re: OS kernel sources Message-ID: <890@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ> Date: 19 Nov 90 01:28:25 GMT References: <1990Nov5.215209.4489@pyro.ei.dupont.com> <884@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ> <1990Nov12.155727.6568@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> <448@organpipe.UUCP> Reply-To: ian@sibyl.OZ (Ian Dall) Distribution: comp.os.mach Organization: Engineering, Uni of Adelaide, Australia Lines: 22 In article Randall.Dean@CS.CMU.EDU writes: -> Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.mach: 14-Nov-90 Re: OS kernel sources -> Michael I. Bushnell@chur (1988) -> To my knowledge, no one (including CMU) other than the FSF is -> considering implementing a free server on top of the Mach microkernel. -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, - CMU not only -considerd it, we did it first :-) Ah. So the micro-kernal is free of AT&T code (except some machine dependent bits which need rewriting for each port anyway) and Poe is free of AT&T code. Granted Poe sounds like is is a bit short of being a "product", but it sounds like a system of interest to hackers like me! How do I get it? :-) It strikes me, the more people who have it, the more people will work on it and the sooner a free usable system will exist. -- Ian Dall life (n). A sexually transmitted disease which afflicts some people more severely than others.