19 Jan
1998
19 Jan
'98
2:43 p.m.
Kip Crosby wrote:
At 22:12 1/18/98 -0500, John wrote:
Nonono. Mach bears a similar relationship to Unix to the one that
Linux has -- no AT&T or Berkley source code in the kernel. It was
an independent effort at what is now Posix by Carnegie-Mellon. It's
Mach, not "Mach Unix". A damned good effort at the time, actually.
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.
Okay, I know NeXT was the baby of Steve Jobs, but
what exactly is it based
on? Is it an entirely new animal? If anyone can point me to some info, I'd
appreciate it.
68030- or 68040-based, running a variant of MACH UNIX called NeXTSTEP. At