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diff --git a/microkernel/mach/history.mdwn b/microkernel/mach/history.mdwn index a27595c0..5a3608cd 100644 --- a/microkernel/mach/history.mdwn +++ b/microkernel/mach/history.mdwn @@ -1,14 +1,14 @@ -# <a name="Table_of_Contents"> Table of Contents </a> - -%TOC% - # <a name="Early_beginnings"> Early beginnings </a> Mach has quite a history. Everything actually started at the University of Rochester in 1975. It was invented to demonstrate how operating systems could be built using a modular design where processes communicated using message passing, even across networks. The system was called the Rochester Intelligent Gateway and ran on a 16 bit mini computer called Eclipse from Data General. One of the engineers behind the project was Richard Rashid. In 1979 he moved his socks to Carnegie Mellon University to continue his research on message passing operating systems. The result emerged in 1981 and was called Accent. -Accent kept running at CMU until 1984 but was by then being run over by UNIX. Rashid then decided to use an early embrace strategy and started designing the third generation OS project called Mach. By making Mach compatible with UNIX, Mach was supposed to gain a lot of available UNIX software. +Accent kept running at CMU until 1984 but was by then being run over by +[[UNIX]]. Rashid then decided to use an early embrace strategy and started +designing the third generation OS project called Mach. By making Mach +compatible with UNIX, Mach was supposed to gain a lot of available UNIX +software. Mach was a vast improvement over Accent. It incorporated parts commonly used today, such as: threads, better IPC, multiprocessor support and an advanced VM system. |