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- From: d88-jwa@hemul.nada.kth.se (Jon WΣtte)
- Subject: Re: mac microkernel
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.120259.5561@kth.se>
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- References: <aaron-270193074937@fpm-mac-17.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:02:59 GMT
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- In <aaron-270193074937@fpm-mac-17.uchicago.edu> aaron@noproblem.uchicago.edu (Aaron L. Bratcher) writes:
-
- >Is there anyone from Apple that can tell us what the status of the
- >mircokernel for the mac is? Will it work on my current mac with System 7?
- >Is the threads product still supported? Will threading on the microkernel
- >use the same functions as the threads package?
-
- Luckily I haven't received any non-disclosure material on this
- yet, so I can guess publicly:
-
- - Working on it (still a ways to go)
- - Sort of (i e if it requires a system software upgrade, the
- system software will be included with the upgrade)
- - Not more than it is today (It relies on standard C
- constructs, for creating cooperative threads)
- - No
-
-
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- -- Jon W{tte, h+@nada.kth.se, Mac Hacker Deluxe --
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