True, but It’s not 4.3 BSD …  I was hoping for something vintage of the era, just as Solaris 11 is SYSV, but it’s nothing like SYSVr2 on the VAX….

 

And historical is far more interesting than something I can just go buy retail….   Speaking as someone who’s own a NeXT, and even bought OS X Server 1.0 on release.

 

 

From: Nemo
Sent: Monday, 20 February 2017 6:41 AM
To: Clem Cole
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Mach for i386 / Mt Xinu or other

 

On 17 February 2017 at 09:29, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:

[...]

> It should have added - that's easy today.  Just buy an Apple Mac or create

> an HackenTosh, then ignore the Apple UI, just run from the terminal.  Darwin

> is Mach 2.5, with BSD under the covers.     Although to be fair, over the

> years, that have more and more diverted from a lot of core UNIX in many

> things in the back, but frankly, I do find it more UNIX-like than not and

> 40+ years of "muscle memory" in my fingers mostly get the right results.

 

Hhhmmm... this was thrashed out last month, starting at

http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2017-January/007608.html

 

#6-)

 

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> Clem

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