Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!quiche!opus!clement From: clement@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Clement Pellerin) Newsgroups: comp.os.mach Subject: Re: Help on mach history! Message-ID: <1930@opus.cs.mcgill.ca> Date: 12 Mar 90 22:10:01 GMT References: <5294.25fbc6e3@uwovax.uwo.ca> Reply-To: clement@opus.UUCP (Clement Pellerin) Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 18 In article <5294.25fbc6e3@uwovax.uwo.ca> cookson@uwovax.uwo.ca writes: >Hi out there. I'm doing a little paper on the history of mach, how >it came to be, why it came to be, how it has changed etc. try: Rashid, From RIG to Accent to Mach: The Evolution of a Network Operating System. In Proc. of the ACM/IEEE Computer Society, Fall Joint Computer Conference, ACM, Nov. 1986 Accent is a close ancestor of Mach. It is worth considering. You don't need to know more of RIG than what's in this paper. There's an annotated Mach biblio. you can ftp from wb1.cs.cmu.edu in /usr/mach/public/doc -- news