While testing a crazy project I wanted to get working I came across this ancient link:
http://altavista.superglobalmegacorp.com/usenet/b182/comp/os/mach/542.txt
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Newsgroups: comp.os.mach
Subject: Mach for i386 - want to beta?
Message-ID: <1364(a)mtxinu.UUCP>
Date: 2 Oct 90 17:12:19 GMT
Reply-To: scherrer(a)mtxinu.COM (Deborah Scherrer)
Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley
Mt Xinu is currently finishing up its release of 2.6 MSD for the i386.
2.6 MSD is a CMU-funded standard distribution of the Mach kernel,
release-engineered with the following:
2.5 Mach kernel, with NFS & BSD-tahoe enhancements
Transarc's AFS
X11R4
most of the 4.3-tahoe BSD release
Andrew Tool Kit
Camelot transaction processing system
Cornell's ISIS distributed programming environment
most of the FSF utilities
a few other nifty things
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Was any of this stuff ever saved? I know on the CSRG CD there is some buried source for
Mach 2.5 although I haven’t seen anything on where to even start to compile it, how or
even how to boot it... I know Mach is certainly not fast, nor all that ‘small’ but it’d
be interesting to see a 4.3BSD on a PC!