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From: phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN)
Newsgroups: comp.os.mach
Subject: looking for a general description
Message-ID: <1991May12.225400.7820@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 12 May 91 22:54:00 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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I have looked through the MACH documents I can find on the network, such
as the manual describing the system calls.  However I cannot find any
document that gives an overall description of what MACH is all about and
how it achieve the solution to the problems it is trying to solve.  What
I am looking for is not Yet-Another-How-To-Use-It document, but rather one
that gives a general description of all phases of it, especially the low
level implementation issues.

There seems to be a lot of things lacking in MACH.  Perhaps this is because
I don't see how the existing things are really supposed to be used.  For
example, how is I/O to be done?
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