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- From: bryanf@hpmcaa (Bryan Ford)
- Subject: Re: Speculations: Amiga and Mach?
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- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 15:51:38 GMT
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- Tony-Preston@cup.portal.com (ANTHONY FRANCIS PRESTON) writes:
- > Having worked with "porting" applications into the Mach environment
- > I would say that moving Amigados to Mach(similar to what I did with
- > a different Real time system in Ada) would be a mistake. Mach documentation
- > makes the RKM and other Amiga documentation look like a set of
- > detailed instructions! My vote is to say aways from Mach at this time!
-
- You must have a different set of documentation than I do, or you don't have
- all of it. The set of four manuals, printed on normal paper, is about as
- big as the 1.1 RKM: Libraries and Devices was, maybe bigger, and it documents
- ONLY the microkernel, the rough equivalent of Exec. I've read through the
- whole thing, and it seemed very clear - although of course many of the concepts
- can be difficult at first for people not used to object-oriented programming.
-
- Besides, even if the Mach documentation wasn't good, the point was already
- made that anybody can get source code for Mach, and source code for example
- servers and clients. (Downloading the February snapshot of the Hurd from
- alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu and scrounging through it helped me get a feel for the
- way things are done in Mach, even though most of that code doesn't work yet.)
-
- BTW, I have a hacked-up version of Mach running on my machine non-preemptively
- (I haven't figured out the interrupt system yet :-) ) and without much to do
- (no device drivers or servers, so it doesn't get much farther than the
- bootstrap routine) but fully in VM and otherwise in good shape. I had only
- the "bad" Mach documentation to learn from.
-
- Bryan
-
- (P.S. Don't even ask for my semi-port of Mach - I did it in order to get
- familiar with it, so it's completely "hackerware". :-) Somebody else is
- doing the real port; can't remember the name right now but I think
- he's on this group.)
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