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- Submitted-by: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
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- sp@gregoire.osf.fr (Simon Patience) writes, among explanations of OSF
- history and status, that:
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- > OSF/1, simplistically, is the integration of Mach 2.5 microkernel and
- > BSD 4.4...
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- This is incorrect on two counts. First, Mach 2.5 is not a "microkernel"
- implementation--it still contains conventional kernel functions. The
- "microkernel" version of Mach is 3.0. (However, it *is* correct that OSF/1
- is based on the non-"micro"kernel 2.5.) Second, OSF/1 could not have
- integrated BSD 4.4, because BSD 4.4 is not done yet--at least not accor-
- ding to the folks at Berkeley! Probably what is meant here is that OSF/1
- has incorporated some of the Berkeley "Reno" code, Reno being the name
- attached to a pre-4.4 release of code intended for developers who want to
- try it out and shake out the bugs.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 22, Number 108
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