RE: Mach kernel and Unix over 68k : well before OS X (Was: Status of6.0 for production systems)

2005-11-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: Gilbert Fernandes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 10:30 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Mach kernel and Unix over 68k : well before OS X (Was: Status >

Re: Mach kernel and Unix over 68k

2005-11-19 Thread Joe Altman
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 07:55:48PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 28. [OT] Re: Mach kernel and Unix over 68k : well before OS X > (Roland Smith) > > Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 19:47:13 +0100 > From: Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [OT] Re: Mach kern

Re: [OT] Re: Mach kernel and Unix over 68k : well before OS X

2005-11-19 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Nov 19, 2005, at 11:47 AM, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 07:29:41PM +0100, Gilbert Fernandes wrote: But "Unix" has been available for MacOS users for a long time, far before MacOS X went out and using a Mach kernel. It has been since 1996, over a Mach kernel. Apple had its

Re: Mach kernel and Unix over 68k : well before OS X (Was: Status of 6.0 for production systems)

2005-11-19 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
Additionally, Apple had AU/X running on Macs before even machten. Natively. Chad On Nov 19, 2005, at 11:29 AM, Gilbert Fernandes wrote: Consider that when MacOS moved to UNIX that all the UNIX software vendors could now easily port their applications to Macintosh. Excuse me, sir. Your di

[OT] Re: Mach kernel and Unix over 68k : well before OS X

2005-11-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 07:29:41PM +0100, Gilbert Fernandes wrote: > But "Unix" has been available for MacOS users for a long time, > far before MacOS X went out and using a Mach kernel. > > It has been since 1996, over a Mach kernel. Apple had its own UNIX running on 68k hardware since 1998: A/

Mach kernel and Unix over 68k : well before OS X (Was: Status of 6.0 for production systems)

2005-11-19 Thread Gilbert Fernandes
> Consider that when MacOS moved to UNIX that all the UNIX software > vendors could now easily port their applications to Macintosh. Excuse me, sir. Your discussion is pretty impressive and I have been reading it with care. Honestly, I am far from having a distant enough picture of the whole say