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From: hagan@ee.ualberta.ca (Daniel Hagan)
Subject: Re: Mach/386 availability
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.232946.13302@ee.ualberta.ca>
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Organization: University of Alberta Electrical Engineering
References: <1991Mar20.142934.19689@linus.mitre.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 91 23:29:46 GMT

In article <1991Mar20.142934.19689@linus.mitre.org> barras@sdimax2.mitre.org (Barrus) writes:
>
>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...)

I fully agree with you.