19 Feb
2017
19 Feb
'17
11:48 a.m.
Wow that'd be incredible!!!
I'd love to see how Mach 2.5/4.3BSD compared to the Mach 3.0/Lites 1.1 that
is as close as I've been able to find... I know about the NeXT stuff, as I
have NS 3.3 installed although running it on 'white' hardware gets harder
and harder as PC's get newer and the IDE controllers just are too feature
ful, and too new for NS to deal with, beyond it can only use 2GB disks
properly. Obviously with no source or any way to get in to write drivers or
update the FFS on NeXTSTEP it's basically stuck in those P1 era machines, or
emulation. There is even previous a 68030/68040 cube based emulator for
running all the 'native' versions.
archive what you can, I can only contribute minro things I stubmle uppon,
mostly by accident.
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From: Atindra Chaturvedi
Reply To: Atindra Chaturvedi
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2017 11:47 PM
To: jsteve(a)superglobalmegacorp.com; tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Mach for i386 / Mt Xinu or other
Amazing - brings back memories. I was a Unix "enterprise IT user" not a
"kernel developer guru" back in the day working at a pharmaceutical
company and was responsible for moving the company off IBM 3090 and SNA to
Unix and TCP/IP.
Used to buy the new Unix-like releases as they were available to stay
current - including the Mt. Xinu Mach 386 distro. I still have it and will
happily send it to the archives - if I can be guided a bit.
Ran the Mt. Xinu for many years as my home machine - it is pre-SCSI for
booting ( needs ESDI disks ) but was very stable. So will need tweaking to
boot/install.
Happy to have worked in the mid-70 - 80's era when there were huge changes
in computer hardware and software technology. I have my books and the
software for all the cool stuff as it came out in those days - some day I
will compile it and send it to where it can be better used or archived as
history.
Atindra.
-----Original Message-----
From: jsteve(a)superglobalmegacorp.com
Sent: Feb 17, 2017 6:30 AM
To: "tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org"
Subject: [TUHS] Mach for i386 / Mt Xinu or other
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
Lines: 24
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!