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Date:      Fri, 17 Oct 1997 15:40:02 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Zoltan Sebestyen <sebesty@cs.elte.hu>
To:        adrian@virginia.edu
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers List <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Rhapsody is 4.4BSD based!?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.971017153710.7277C-100000@neumann.cs.elte.hu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.90.971016231053.22323D-100000@stretch.cs.Virginia.edu>

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On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Adrian T. Filipi-Martin wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> 	Has anyone else seen this?  Aparently Apples next generation OS 
> is 4.4BSD based.  Do I smell a new emmulation to support?
> 
In fact, rhapsody is based on nextstep/openstep which are Mach
microkernel(that's multithreaded) + a BSD server emulation. (That's why I
could port vmount from openstep. If I remember correctly, OPENSTEP's BSD
is a 4.2 BSD. 

> 	You can get the basics from the following PCmag URL:
> 
> 	http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/news/trends/t971016a.htm
> 
> 	I wonder which 4.4BSD they started with?  It is reported to be 
> multithreaded.  I wonder if them mean kernel-multithreaded?
As I noted before, yes it is.


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Sebestyen Zoltan			It all seems so stupid,
					it makes me want to give up.
szoli@caesar.elte.hu			But why should I give up,
					when it all seems so stupid?




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