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- From: jvh@cs.hut.fi (Johannes Helander)
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- Subject: [comp.sys.nsc.32k] 32532 Mach port available
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- Date: 2 Sep 1992 04:33:35 GMT
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, CS Lab.
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- Archive-name: auto/comp.sys.nsc.32k/32532-Mach-port-available
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- A free port of the Mach 3.0 micro-kernel to the pc532, a National
- Semiconductor 32532 based single board computer, is now available.
-
- This is a first public version. Improvements are still needed in some
- areas and bug reports / fixes are most welcome: send them to
- mach-532-bugs@cs.hut.fi. Also, this is not a complete operating
- system. A Un*x server is still needed to run application programs.
-
- A port of the 4.3BSD emulation along with libraries and user programs
- has been done and it comes up multi-user but it will not be
- distributed due to licensing restrictions.
-
- A version of the net2 based bnr2ss server has been done but it is not
- yet in a useful state. (Unfortunately also the freeness of this along
- with the rest of net2, most of which has been built and ported to the
- pc532, has been cast in doubt by the Dark Forces).
-
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- The porting was done at Helsinki University of Technology by
- Johannes Helander, Tero Kivinen, and Tatu Ylonen as an attempt to
- obtain some familiarity with the Mach operating system and to get a
- real operating system for the pc532.
-
- Many thanks to the Carnegie Mellon Mach group for designing this
- superb operating system and for their openness and help. Thanks to
- Dave Rand and George Scolaro for designing the pc532 and making the
- design freely available. Thanks to Jukka Virtanen, Ian Dall, and Jukka
- Partanen for contributing time to this effort as well as to Bruce
- Culbertson and Bob Krause for the disassembler.
-
-
- The sources can be obtained through anonymous ftp from nic.funet.fi in
- directory pub/mach/pc532-src. The file pc532.MK78.tar.Z (245737 bytes)
- is a set of add-on files to the kernel version MK78 as distributed by
- CMU. Some binaries can be found in pub/mach/pc532-bin.
-
- New versions matching future CMU versions will be added when needed.
- Other useful sources and binaries, such as bnr2ss, libc, user
- programs, etc. will be added as soon as they work well enough and
- their uncontaminatedness has been verified.
-
- There is a mailing list mach-532@cs.hut.fi for persons interested in
- continued development of Mach for the pc532. To be added to the list
- or to be removed from it, please send mail to mach-532-request@cs.hut.fi.
-
- Johannes
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