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- From: rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn)
- Subject: Re: Mach 3.0 on 386/486
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.083757@eklektix.com>
- Summary: bogus flames against mt Xinu
- Organization: eklektix - Boulder, Colorado
- References: <lychan.713673949@yak> <1992Aug24.200820.24081@engage.pko.dec.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 08:37:57 GMT
- Lines: 46
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- ewanco@kalvin.enet.dec.com writes:
- >Mach i386 is freely available from it source; anonymous FTP to cs.cmu.edu and
- >snarf it...[etc...installation instructions]...
-
- Note that what you get is not an operating system! It's a large chunk of
- useful stuff, but ...
-
- >Do NOT, repeat, do NOT buy Mach from Mt. Xinu!!...
-
- Do NOT, repeat, do NOT listen to this bozo!!
-
- mt Xinu is one of the oldest bastions of UNIX development in the commercial
- world. Not to say they've never slipped up, but they know what they're
- doing. Mach/386 is a good product.
-
- >...One of my friends (I graduated
- >from Carnegie Mellon and was taught by the current Mach leader) was on the Mach
- >team and he said tha Mt. Xinu's version was several revs behind and not quality
- >work...
-
- Yeah, right..."my friend told me"...care to tell us who this illustrious
- flamer was? The "appeal to authority" argument fallacy is bad enough,
- without the "authority" being anonymous.
-
- Actually, I ran Mach/386 for a fair while (not running it currently, only
- because I have 2 more operating systems than machines!) and found it to be
- a quality system. I used it for real development (i.e., a large piece of
- software I was being paid to develop). I also found the folks at mt Xinu
- very helpful, easy to deal with, and professional.
-
- I have to wonder if "several revs behind" means "not on the bleeding
- edge"--waiting for code to settle down before using it.
-
- >...Why pay lots of money when the CMU i386 version is complete and
- >standalone (now at least).
-
- First off, because it's not complete. No fault of theirs, but thus far it
- takes substantial AT&T-licensed code to make a complete system.
-
- Second, because you might want support, and CMU isn't in the support biz.
- That's why they arranged with mt Xinu to do the commercial version.
-
- TANSTAAFL.
- --
- Dick Dunn rcd@raven.eklektix.com -or- raven!rcd Boulder, Colorado
- Cats!
-