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From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: Mach sources not avail. from NeXT ? (Was : Re: Free Updates ?)
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Date: 26 Dec 90 23:03:11 GMT
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In-Reply-To: eckert@medusainformatik.uni-erlangen.de's message of 20 Dec 90 15:18:13 GMT

In article <3405@medusainformatik.uni-erlangen.de> eckert@medusainformatik.uni-erlangen.de (Toerless Eckert) writes:
   I for once don't know another real life system that uses mach, so
   the NeXT would be quite a good system for the purpose of looking
   into a mach system.

Several companies sell "real life" systems running Mach.  BBN ships
Mach on their Butterfly, as does Encore on their MultiMax.  MtXinu has
been selling it to folks with VAXen and Sun-3s.  And, beginning in
late January, they'll ship a binary distribution for AT-bus 386 boxes.
That's just off the top of my head, and I likely forgot some.

As far as I know, all the other Mach vendors besides NeXT at least
offer the option of a source license, albeit for a hefty fee if you're
not an educational institution.