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From: mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (My watch has windows) Meyer)
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Subject: Re: Free Software Foundation (was: Re: Mach, the new standard?)
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Date: Wed, 9-Sep-87 21:38:43 EDT
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In article <647@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
<I don't think something like the FSF should be deciding what hardware the
<system will run on.

And I don't think that people not supporting a project should be
dictating it's goals.

<Start out with a small, extensible kernel... something
<on the order of XINU, MINIX, or TUNIS. Make sure it's designed with hooks in
<place to expand it... use message passing (I know AST claims it's not efficient
<enough, but it seems to work well on the Amiga). Keep it modular. Then you
<can add the VM memory manager, or the real-time scheduler. You'll have
<something you can build on.

Sounds like a nice project. Why aren't you working on it, instead of
grousing about how the people working on free software aren't doing it
for you?

And if you *are* working on it, let me know what I can do to help.

	<mike
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