>Scott Reynolds wrote:
>>On Tue, 6 Feb 1996, Bernard Gardner wrote:
>>> I've just seen an Apple Press release, indicating that Linux is being ported
>>> to the power mac platform. The port is being done by OSF, and will run onach
>>> the Mach microkernel.
>>
>>Well, it seems to me that this is something of a contradiction... not to
>>say that your information isn't correct, but isn't this really a Mach
>>port with a Linux server on top?
>
>In fact, we've ported the Mach kernel to the PowerMac and we've ported
>Linux to Mach as an architecture-neutral pseudo machine. There are
>very few changes to the generic Linux sources required to do this, and
>it means that it is simple to keep up with Linux releases (in fact, we
>expect to have our changes merged in to Linus's distribution). Linux
>now becomes a pageable task just like all the others.

If this is the case, then does it become possible to run say the BSD Lites
server side by side with the linux server?  That could really be
interesting!

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