23 Jun
2019
23 Jun
'19
7:59 p.m.
Jon Forrest <nobozo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I wonder if Mach was a Postgres or BSD style project.
More the former than the latter.
Mach entered the commercial world by way of NeXT, and there were a few
other more or less production versions, such as the mt. Xinu one and
MachTen (IIRC), but Mach never really caught on big. (There was even
a port of Linux on top of Mach at some point.)
Mach survives today in the kernel of Mac OS X (Darwin), but I think that's
about it.
Rick Rashid, who was the guiding professor for Mach, went to Microsoft
Research, and as far as I can tell, fell off the radar screen for OS
development work. (Anyone who knows different feel free to correct me.)
Arnold