Subject: Re: NetBSD & the Mach microkernel
To: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.stanford.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 05/19/1996 17:34:40
On Sun, 19 May 1996 14:39:26 -0700 (PDT) 
 Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.stanford.edu> wrote:

 > A while back I heard that someone had ported NetBSD to the mach
 > microkernel. Did I hear correctly? If so, who did it, & is it "current"?

No, Lites, a 4.4Lite-based single-server is available for Mach...

See http://www.cs.utah.edu/projects/flux/index.html

 > I'm asking as mkLinux, Linux on the Mach microkernel running on a PowerPC,
 > has come out in a Developper's release. Us mac68k people would like to get
 > NetBSD running on the microkernel too.

Hmm ... could steal/read the guts of the mircokernel for a native NetBSD 
port, too.

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