Subject: Re: Apple's Rhapsody DR1 and NetBSD
To: Ken Nakata <kenn@eden.rutgers.edu>
From: David A. Gatwood <marsmail@globegate.utm.edu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/16/1997 13:46:02
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Ken Nakata wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Oct 1997 04:39:29 -0700,
> Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US> wrote:
> > The Installation Manual for Apple's 1st Developer Release of Rhapsody
> > contains copyright credits for both Allen Briggs and the Alice Group gang
> > as well as Theo de Raadt.  !?!?!  *boggle*
> 
> Isn't Rhapsody based on NeXT which is based on CMU Mach MK?  Probably
> what happened is that they are using OSF Mach MK of MkLinux.  The MK
> in MkLinux contains code from NetBSD (and probably from OpenBSD as
> well?).

Sort of... as I understand it, Rhapsody DR1 is based on Mach 2.5, and
eventually it seems likely that it will use MkLinux's Mach 3.  However, it
also seems likely that drivers and stuff would have been, to some degree,
ported from Mach 3 for the DR1 semi-public beta, including some of the
stuff that was borrowed from NetBSD.  I'm not sure though...


David

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