[geeks] Hmmm.. food for thought...

[Jon Still]

On Tuesday, February 19, 2002, at 08:05 AM, Dave McGuire wrote:

>   I was told, very specifically, that the Mach stuff was dropped.  I
> will verify this the next time I speak with Geoff.

I think you'll find otherwise:

[procyon:~]$ uname -a
Darwin procyon.siderial.org 5.2 Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec  7 
21:39:35 PST 2001; root:xnu/xnu-201.14.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC  Power 
Macintosh powerpc
[procyon:~]$ ps auxw|grep mach
jon    485   0.0  0.0     1924     84 std  R+     0:00.00 grep mach
root     2   0.0  0.0     1300    140  ??  SL     0:01.18 /sbin/mach_init

Also see: 
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Essentials/SystemOverview/SystemTechnologies/
Darwin.html

"Darwin integrates a number of technologies, most importantly Mach 3.0, 
operating-system services based on 4.4BSD (Berkeley Software 
Distribution), high-performance networking facilities, and support for 
multiple integrated file systems."

J.

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