27 Jun
2019
27 Jun
'19
6:22 a.m.
On Jun 26, 2019, at 1:21 PM, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
I also agree with whoever said the Mach guys were trying out all sorts
of different ideas, that's cool. What's not cool is that when those
ideas didn't pan out they left in all the substrate that had proven to
be not needed.
It seems like you’re still missing the point.
All the different ideas weren’t implemented by “the Mach [people] trying all sorts of
different ideas” in-tree, they were implemented by a variety of researchers *atop* the
large set of abstractions and layers Mach provided.
All the substrate *wasn’t* proven to be not needed, if anything it was proven to be very
useful in performing OS research experiments without having to do a lot of work on the
substrate itself.
I also read a lot of the Mach code very early in my career and found it pretty
comprehensible.
-- Chris