24 Jul
2020
24 Jul
'20
2:01 a.m.
On Jul 20, 2020, at 12:49 PM, Al Kossow <aek(a)bitsavers.org> wrote:
I also had one of the few copies of MacMach that ran
on a IIfx.
No one in Cupertino was very interested in Mach.
I really wish this had been preserved. MacMach from what I saw meeting the last of the
people involved at CMU in 1993-4 was a lot like A/UX in having System 6 as a process under
Mach with BSD either colocated or running as a single server.
I have a friend who still had one of CMU's distribution CD right up until a couple
years ago, when he trashed a bunch of stuff to move to another continent. :( If anyone
else has one, it'd be news to me. The closest I have is an image of the bootstrap
floppy; you normally got MacMach on campus by booting from a floppy that would start up a
minimal Mach+BSD+shell; you would boot it, configure TCP/IP, partition your disk, and then
SUP the rest of the distribution.
-- Chris