FYI: "FSF work on a GNU OS" posted to comp.ar

Mariusz Stanczak Mariusz at fbits.ttank.com
Fri May 17 17:47:26 AEST 1991


In article <1991May13.014449.15581 at chance.UUCP>, john at chance.UUCP (John R. MacMillan) writes:
> As for what really is in the Mach kernel, it's a little more than
[a list of impressive features deleted]
> mulitprocessors.  Considering these design goals, it's not so
> surprising that it's more than a few K big.

	Still, (;-)) I'll be thrilled to have a chance to see the
    Mach MICROkernel, and to think about "what it is", and maybe
	 ^^^^^ emphasis added ("Mach", and "micro" are not synano-
    mous(sp)) even about "what it would take".


[...]
(an aside)
> I remember hearing Rob Pike at Usenix picking on billing Mach as a
> microkernel, and telling how much of Plan 9 you could get for the same
> number of lines of source.  It included the entire OS, the compiler
[a list causing extensive salivation deleted]

(and even further aside)
	hey, here's a truely futuristic desire... one we can have for
    a safe time to come, BTW.  And it should unfold afront of our eyes
    in a somewhat familiar fashion... news of it first, then educa-
    tional institutions, then...  I don't know, wouldn't once be enough?


[...]
> library, and I forget what else.

	And so do I [would like to], no matter how nice it is.  As long
    as the mentality to sell ideas as products persists.

(and the whole of the above completely not on subject, which should not
 matter either way ;-))

-Mariusz
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