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From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: NeXT, students, and optical disks
Message-ID: <287@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 21 Oct 88 22:33:06 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>According to Jobs NeXT wants to have optical disk bootable.  They are still
>negotiating with AT&T about distribution rights.  (Why is AT&T involved?
>Mach is not UNIX, it just resembles UNIX.  Can anyone shed some light on
>this?)

The OS that NeXT is running presumably consists of more than just the
code written at CMU; it probably includes a lot of code written at AT&T.
(CMU didn't go to the trouble of rewriting all the user-mode code, and
there may even be kernel-mode code in there from AT&T....)