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From: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Amiga Mach
Message-ID: <3616.27a7194a@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Date: 31 Jan 91 00:06:50 GMT
References: <Ebc573S00VolA5r1IC@andrew.cmu.edu> <stefanb.665235258@kaa>
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In article <stefanb.665235258@kaa>, stefanb@kaa.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Becker) writes:
> ls3c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Laurence D. Silverman) writes:
>>	Commodore, unfortunately, has decided that they cannot lend us any help
>>due to their contract agreements with AT&T and the Unix deal.  So, my
>>question is thus:
> 
> :-(
> 
>>Has anyone tried to port Mach to the Amiga, and if so, how?
> 
> Why not start a porting project? If the source is available without a hefty
> price tag (unlike AT&T), I would be interested to work on the port. With GCC in
> our hands this should not be impossible.

The reason Carnegie Melon wants the Amiga to run MACH is because MACH was 
written at CM for the NeXT. I don't know if CM still does updates for it 
though, or if NeXT, Inc, is doing it.

Somewhere on the CMU campus is probably the source for MACH. 

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