On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Paul Jakma <paul.jakma@compaq.com> said:
>
> [...]
>
> > 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?
>
> All monolytic, except possibly MacOS X (don't know that one, and I remember
> Apple's Linux was on Mach, because they wanted to build their OS based on
> Mach, so it could be). WinNT was based on Mach, but is going to monolytic
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Ermmm. Win/NT was based upon VAX/VMS. The principal designer of VAX/VMS
was publicly-announced by Micro$oft to be the designer of the NT kernel.
There were no secrets. M$ had such a poor reputation because of Windo{{{{
{{{zz ... that they wanted to make sure that the world knew that they
had acquired an expert for the "New Technology" OS.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.3.41 on an i686 machine (800.63 BogoMips).
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