Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!think.com!yale!quasi-eli!cs.yale.edu!cs.yale.edu!yarvin-norman From: yarvin-norman@cs.yale.edu (Norman Yarvin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1 Subject: Re: FYI: "FSF work on a GNU OS" posted to comp.arch Message-ID: <1991May8.035642.28195@cs.yale.edu> Date: 8 May 91 03:56:42 GMT References: <108@fbits.ttank.com> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT Lines: 19 Originator: yarvin@turquoise.CS.Yale.Edu Nntp-Posting-Host: turquoise.systemsx.cs.yale.edu Mariusz@fbits.ttank.com (Mariusz Stanczak) quotes: >| The Free Software Foundation is beginning work on a GNU operating >| system built on top of the Mach 3.0 microkernel. There are three >| goals to this project worth noting: >| >| o Binary compatability with 4.4 BSD The problem with this that the Mach 'microkernel' is about as big as the entire 3b1 OS, and then some monster compatible with 4.4BSD is to run as a process on _top_ of that. There is no way it will fit in a 3b1. The other factor to note is that this is _very_ heavy vaporware. Even the details of 4.4BSD are not yet out, mostly because it is still in the process of being written. -- Norman Yarvin yarvin-norman@cs.yale.edu "Do not think what you want to think until you know what you ought to know." (Crow's Law)