Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!manuel!gustav From: gustav@arp.anu.edu.au (Zdzislaw Meglicki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent Subject: Re: Mach as a replacement O/S (was obsolete software) Message-ID: <1991Mar13.222938@arp.anu.edu.au> Date: 13 Mar 91 12:29:38 GMT References: <53625@sequent.UUCP> <123459@uunet.UU.NET> <536@coatimundi.cs.arizona.edu> <1991Mar13.221353@arp.anu.edu.au> Sender: news@newshost.anu.edu.au Reply-To: gustav@arp.anu.edu.au (Zdzislaw Meglicki) Organization: Australian National University, Canberra Lines: 15 Originator: gustav@diana.anu.edu.au Aha, one more thing... Someone suggested here in comp.sys.sequent that Sequent should embrace OSF/2. What Sequent could do is to provide two alternative OSs - much like DIGITAL (VMS and Ultrix) or CRAY (once upon a time). A system such as OSF/2 may turn to be highly portable and with much of the work already done by OSF maintenance on the side of the Sequent could be much reduced. Also, since OSF/1 is based on Mach 2.5, and Sequent has already Mach 2.5/DYNIX combination working (although not without problems), to offer OSF/1 or 2 should be that much easier. -- Gustav Meglicki, gustav@arp.anu.edu.au, Automated Reasoning Project, RSSS, and Plasma Theory Group, RSPhysS, The Australian National University, G.P.O. Box 4, Canberra, A.C.T., 2601, Australia, fax: (Australia)-6-249-0747, tel: (Australia)-6-249-0158