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| author | Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> | 2007-09-03 16:39:41 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> | 2007-09-03 16:39:41 +0200 |
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diff --git a/unsorted/NewMachHistory.mdwn b/unsorted/NewMachHistory.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..562d1cac --- /dev/null +++ b/unsorted/NewMachHistory.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +# <a name="Table_of_Contents"> Table of Contents </a> + +%TOC% + +# <a name="Early_beginnings"> Early beginnings </a> + +GNUMach is based on Mach4 from University of Utah, which in turn is based on Mach3 from Carnegie-Mellon University. The last release of Mach4 was the [UK22 release](http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/mach4-i386/html/mach4-UK22.html). + +The oskit-mach version of GNU Mach was presented in November 1999 by Roland McGrath. <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-hurd/1999-November/003554.html> The purpose of the port was to get better hardware support through new drivers and platform code available in the OSKit. + +On May 27 2002, after the Gnumach 1.3 release, Roland McGrath merged OSKit-Mach onto the HEAD of CVS making it the Gnumach 2.x mainline. + +# <a name="Status_of_the_project"> Status of the project </a> + +GNU Mach 1.3 was released in May 2002, and features advanced boot script support, support for large disks (>= 10GB) and an improved console. + +GNU Mach is used as the default microkernel in the GNU/Hurd system. It is compatible with other popular Mach distributions. The device drivers for block devices and network cards are taken from Linux 2.0.x kernel versions, and so a broad range of common hardware is supported. + +However, the Linux device drivers have been improved greatly since the 2.0.x version, and a new version of GNU Mach based on the OSKit library is being worked on, which uses newer drivers and in general has cleaner machine specific support code. + +---- + +Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA + +Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved. + +-- [[Main/JoachimNilsson]] - 24 Oct 2002 |