Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Will Ultrix... Message-ID: Date: 19 Feb 91 02:39:35 GMT References: <1991Feb14.235721.355@nic.csu.net> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Distribution: comp.unix.ultrix Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 18 In-reply-to: morse@quark.mpr.ca's message of 15 Feb 91 13:53:53 GMT In article morse@quark.mpr.ca (Daryl Morse) writes: | In the future, Ultrix will *not* be based on BSD. DEC is an active | member of the OSF and has publicly announced that at some time in the | future, Ultrix will be based OSF/1 (ie. Mach kernel + lots of other | functionality). While I'm not familiar with BSD, I have read quite a | few papers on Mach. I would be surprised if BSD came anywhere near the | level of innovation of Mach (ie. threads, SMP, IPC, memory management, | etc.) Though of course, OSF/1 is based on BSD (reno and tahoe) in addition to Mach, System V.2, X3PG, AIX, etc...... -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?