Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!bu.edu!encore!encore.com!boykin
From: boykin@encore.com (Joseph Boykin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
Subject: Re: Mach Release 1.0 for the Multimax
Message-ID: <14082@encore.Encore.COM>
Date: 18 Feb 91 15:39:46 GMT
References: <14033@encore.Encore.COM> <88363@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Sender: news@Encore.COM
Reply-To: boykin@encore.com
Organization: Encore Computer Corp.
Lines: 23
Nntp-Posting-Host: encore.encore.com

In article <88363@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, kuechlin@tiger.cis.ohio-state.edu (Wolfgang W Kuechlin) writes:
|> In Proc. USENIX 1990 Mach workshop there is an article by
|> Van Sciver and Rashid: Zone Garbage Collection,
|> in which they appear to say that Mach 2.5 does not have zone garbage
|> collection. 
|> Does Encore Mach 1.0 have it?

The zone garbage collection code was actually done for OSF/1.  CMU
took the code back, but to my knowledge they used the code in the 3.0
kernel, not 2.5.

In either case, the answer to your question is "no", this code is
not currently in Encore's Mach release.

----

Joseph Boykin
Manager, Mach OS Development
Encore Computer Corp
Treasurer, IEEE Computer Society

Internet: boykin@encore.com
Phone: 508-460-0500 x2720