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From: barras@sdimax2.mitre.org (Barrus)
Subject: Mach/386 availability
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.142934.19689@linus.mitre.org>
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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1991 14:29:34 GMT


I keep seeing posts mentioning that the licensing has been freed
up on Mach 3.0, and that at least the microkernel should be
freely available for the 386.   However, I've yet to see any
mention of how to obtain it.  I contacted MtXinu, but they're
only offering a binary release, and for over $1000!  
Sorry, but I'm a college student, and although I MAY be willing
to spend about one hundred, that's my absolute limit.       

Also- although the BSD4.3 support is supposedly still under license,
isn't that just for the source?  I mean, can't someone put a binary
distribution of the BSD library for Mach3.0 up on the net?

Basically, what I want all this for is to have a real 32-bit BSD environment
(with gcc, gdb, etc..) to do development work for my own OS on my 386.
(MSDOS just doesn't cut it as a good environment, although I DO have
GCC for MSDOS and will resort to it if I have to)

So, if anyone could lead me in the right direction to obtaining MACH/BSD,
or some other real 32-bit Un*x for the 386, I'd greatly appreciate it.
Thanks.

       - Frank

(P.S. - how much memory/diskspace will I need?  I currently only have 2 megs,
and only 25 megs of my 80 meg drive are free...)