Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!mojo!stripes From: stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Dual Universes Message-ID: <1991May1.213542.248@eng.umd.edu> Date: 1 May 91 21:35:42 GMT References: <130311@uunet.UU.NET> <1991Apr30.233337.6112@kithrup.COM> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (C-News) Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 18 In article <1991Apr30.233337.6112@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes: [...] >Better yet, let's start from scratch and do everything better. Then write >equivalent commands and compatible library functions. Isn't this what Mach is all about? (or at least Unix under Mach, and Unix under V, and mabie even Amoeba (but I know less about it then V or Mach, anyone have any good references on that, if you do mail 'em to me please)) >One person I've talked to had a 5MByte SysVr4 kernel. Sick. And I thought the 3M genvmunix for DECStations was sick... -- stripes@eng.umd.edu "Security for Unix is like Josh_Osborne@Real_World,The Multitasking for MS-DOS" "The dyslexic porgramer" - Kevin Lockwood "CNN is the only nuclear capable news network..." - lbruck@eng.umd.edu (Lewis Bruck)