5 Jan
2020
5 Jan
'20
2:30 p.m.
On Sun, 2020-01-05 at 21:54 +0100, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 19:02, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I had been working on the IBM Microkernel (was one of the original 6
people onthat team). It was eventually to form the basis of OS/2 for
PPC. The way thatthe microkernel project was structured was that
most
of the "OS" was personalityneutral (e.g. could be used for Unix,
OS/2,
DOS, etc) and then there was an OSpersonality that ran on top of the
infrastructure. OS/2 on PPC was supposed tobe the first to ship.
I think I read that it was based on CMU Mach -- is that right?
Yes. We first started with Mach 3.0 build MK58. We did our final
fork at MK68. We made some *significant* changes from what CMU
had (things like changing mach messages from IPC to RPC) and a
whole lot of work in the area of scheduling.
It did seem for a while that a lot of things were
based on Mach, but
very few seemed to make it to market. NeXTstep and OSF/1, the only
version of which to ship AFAIK was DEC OSF/1 AXP, later Digital UNIX,
later Tru64.
Yes, a lot of things were based on Mach. One OS that you're forgetting
is OS X. That is based upon Mach 2.5.
MkLinux didn't get very far, either, did it?
I think that was the original Linux port for PPC.
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TTFN - Guy