MACMACH FAQ 12/9/93

A) What is MacMach?
MacMach is the Mach 3.0 micro-kernel with the CMU UX single server and
BSD/Tahoe utilities.  The kernel version is MK83 and the server is UX28.

B) What Macintosh's run MacMach?
II, IIx, IIci, IIfx, SE/30, ClassicII
at least 8MB ram, at least 80MB disk (300MB for full+sources)

C) What licenses are required?
BSD4.3/Mach2.5 Unix Source license (for UX and BSD/Tahoe utilities)
Non-redistribution / personal-use-only agreement with Apple (for MK)
	
D) How is MacMach distributed?
Via network SUP program from CMU.  Send requests to MACH@CS.CMU.EDU for
distribution details.

E) What is the future of MacMach?
1) "very soon now" I expect to have a kernel-only distribution available that
would not require a Unix license.  You will still need some sort of Unix
environment to build a kernel...
2) I have a PowerBook 180c and I hope to have MacMach running on it in a month
or so.
3) I am looking into a port of the CMU Multi-Server or BSDSS to use as s
license-free Unix.  There will be problems with CMU distributing such a thing,
but I am sure *someone* *somewhere* will distribute it if it exists.
4) I still have no funding for MacMach.  There are some neat things that
could be done...  Like making a Mach "extension" to System 7 that would allow
Mac applications to run in protected memory or using Mach real-time scheduling
to create interesting Mac/Mach applications.  If anyone is interested, let
me know.
Zon Williamson, CMU MacMach
zon@cs.cmu.edu