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SubjectRe: Help in DSM design
Paul Jakma writes:
> On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>
> > Remember MACH? Who even uses it today, or Chorus for that matter?
> >
>
> correct me if i'm wrong, but aren't all the SysVR4 derived unices
> (T64/IRIX/Solaris/Unixware) using Mach based kernels? And MacOS X too?

We had one of the very first SMP AlphaServers: OSF/1 T3.0-1 was the
version ("T" for "Field Test"). After years and years of serious
problems (panics left right and centre, a new one every week), DEC
admitted that the SMP support in the OSF/1 codebase was basically
"proof of concept", never tested in real life and had to be rewritten
from scratch for DEC OSF/1 (which became Digital UNIX (which became
Tru64 UNIX)).

Solaris was never Mach based as far as I know. MacOS X is, I thought,
BSD 4.4 based. I've never got the impression that IRIX was Mach-ish
either, though I haven't done much with the IRIX boxes around here.

--Malcolm

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Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk>
Unix Systems Programmer
Oxford University Computing Services

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