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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:10:29 -0500
- From: Trevor Tompkins <tt17+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: os/2 in byte magazine -- planned use of mach kernel!!
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- > I think this is sort of old news on this newsgroup, but IBM has
- >been planning on using the Mach kernel for quite a while (relatively
- >speaking). Microsoft was working on the micro-kernel for quite a
- >while, and IBM was going to use that Kernel for OS/2 3.0. MS and
- >IBM have since broken up, and the Kernel MS was working on has
- >been developed into Windows NT. IBM went on to look at a couple of
- >other kernels, and decided that the Mach kernel would best suit
- >their needs.
- > The main reason for having the Mach kernel is for poratability.
- >There has been a lot of talk about the differences in the two
- >kernels, and basically, they are fairly equivalent.
-
- >Somebody correct me if I'm wrong...
-
- IBM has been doing quite a bit of joint research with Carnegie Mellon
- Unversity, where the Kernal was developed, so it is really no surprise
- that they chose the Mach.
-
- --Trevor
-