Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!mprgate.mpr.ca!newshost!morse From: morse@quark.mpr.ca (Daryl Morse) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Will Ultrix... Message-ID: Date: 22 Feb 91 02:46:36 GMT References: <1991Feb14.235721.355@nic.csu.net> Sender: news@mprgate.mpr.ca Distribution: comp.unix.ultrix Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd., Burnaby, BC, Canada. Lines: 25 In-Reply-To: meissner@osf.org's message of 19 Feb 91 02:39:35 GMT In article meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes: 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...... How much actual "BSD" or "AT&T" code is in OSF/1? I vaguely recall reading that some BSD and AT&T code exists in OSF/1, and that there may even be some in OSF/2? Is that correct? -- Daryl Morse | Voice : (604) 293-5476 MPR Teltech Ltd. | Fax : (604) 293-5787 8999 Nelson Way, Burnaby, BC | E-Mail: morse@quark.mpr.ca Canada, V5A 4B5 | quark.mpr.ca!morse@uunet.uu.net Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com