From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 17 07:29:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA14251 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 07:29:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from konig.elte.hu (konig.elte.hu [157.181.6.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA14137 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 07:26:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sebesty@cs.elte.hu) Received: from neumann.cs.elte.hu (neumann [157.181.6.200]) by konig.elte.hu (8.8.3/8.7.3/7s) with ESMTP id PAA11670; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 15:40:24 +0200 Received: from localhost (sebesty@localhost) by neumann.cs.elte.hu (8.8.3/8.7.3/4c) with SMTP id PAA08660; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 15:40:03 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: neumann.cs.elte.hu: sebesty owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 15:40:02 +0200 (MET DST) From: Zoltan Sebestyen To: adrian@virginia.edu cc: FreeBSD Hackers List Subject: Re: Rhapsody is 4.4BSD based!? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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?