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- From: mark@alsvid.une.edu.au (Mark Garrett Internet: mark@arvak.une.edu.au Phone: +61 66 20 3859)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.mach
- Subject: Re: Mach 3.0 on 386/486
- Message-ID: <BtvL4y.IJM@alsvid.une.edu.au>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 01:22:09 GMT
- References: <1992Aug24.200820.24081@engage.pko.dec.com>
- Organization: University of New England - Northern Rivers (Lismore)
- Lines: 35
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- From article <1992Aug24.200820.24081@engage.pko.dec.com>, by eje@irenaeus.mlo.dec.com (Eric James Ewanco):
- >
- >> In article <lychan.713673949@yak>, lychan@socs.uts.edu.au (91031322 l y chan) writes:
- >> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 22:45:49 GMT+5:00
- >> From: lychan@socs.uts.edu.au (91031322 l y chan)
- >> Subject: Mach 3.0 on 386/486
- >
- > Do NOT, repeat, do NOT buy Mach from Mt. Xinu!! 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. Why pay lots of money when the CMU i386 version is complete and
- > standalone (now at least).
-
- Mt Xinu is attempt to sell a comercial robust product, read this
- to mean not the latest version of everything. Real paying customers like
- software to work. We are not all Un*x and Mach experts and cannot do our
- own software support, we are not all Academic institutions with internet
- access. This is where a company like Mt Xinu comes in.
-
- Also Mt Xinu system provided an ideal boot strap system for Mach 3.0
- , which I believe is version 2.5
-
-
- OSF would be the ideal supplier if they targeted intel, they seem to
- caught up with MIPS and Alpha releases to provide a finish product for Intel.
-
- I guess we wait long enough we will have OSF/? on everthing
- and a hackers version of Mach?.? available everywhere.
-
-
- Cheers
- Mark :)
- --
- Mark Garrett Internet: mark@arvak.une.edu.au Phone: +61 66 20 3859
- University of New England, Northern Rivers, Lismore NSW Australia.
-