Will Ultrix...

[Daryl Morse]

In article <MEISSNER.91Feb18213935 at curley.osf.org> meissner at osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes:

   In article <MORSE.91Feb15085353 at quark.mpr.ca> morse at quark.mpr.ca
   (Daryl Morse) writes:

   | In the future, Ultrix will *not* be based on BSD. DEC is an active
   | member of the OSF and has publicly announced that at some time in the
   | future, Ultrix will be based OSF/1 (ie. Mach kernel + lots of other
   | functionality). While I'm not familiar with BSD, I have read quite a
   | few papers on Mach. I would be surprised if BSD came anywhere near the
   | level of innovation of Mach (ie. threads, SMP, IPC, memory management,
   | etc.)

>   Though of course, OSF/1 is based on BSD (reno and tahoe) in addition
>   to Mach, System V.2, X3PG, AIX, etc......

How much actual "BSD" or "AT&T" code is in OSF/1? I vaguely recall
reading that some BSD and AT&T code exists in OSF/1, and that there
may even be some in OSF/2? Is that correct?

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