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- From: knee@netcom.com (Mark Lanett)
- Subject: Re: How to get Mach; Mach for Mac?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.210000.7920@netcom.com>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:00:00 GMT
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- dswartz@sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber) writes:
-
- >What I have asked on this newsgroup at least 3 times in the last 6 months
- >(with no response) is why CMU can't release the micro-kernel only portion
- >of MacMach (i.e. have it be a machine option like i386, luna88k, etc...)
- >Admittedly, a micro-kernel only is of limited use, but then you can make
- >that same argument about all of the other machine types as well. I would
- >really appreciate it if *someone* from CMU could explain this...
-
- MacMach was a partnership w/ Apple and has a bit of proprietary stuff in it;
- that was to be covered in the general license. I don't know but imagine that
- some of it was in the kernal also. I'd be surprised if ANY part of MacMach
- could be distributed freely.
-
- Mark L
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