* OSF Research Institute MK6.1 (unencumbered) This is evident in boolean.h as an example:

Further complicating things, Darwin 0.1 reports itself as Rhapsody 5.3, while Darwin 0.2 and 0.3 report themselves as Darwin 0.2/0.3įrom the source code of Darwin 0.1, The kernel is based on OS/F's 6.1 kernel. And there have been several more public releases, up to and including OS X Server 1.0 which was based on the OPENSTEP kernel. As far as I've been able to track down there have been 3 public releases of this OPENSTEP Darwin. Somebody used to sell a Mac OS (pre-OSX) emulator for NeXTStep that used the user-space-pagers to good effect.In the beginning of the project it was a fork of OPENSTEP. Each VMS task took 2 Mach tasks, plus many threads.

The original CMU Mach folks used these abstractions to emulate BSD Unix processes, MS-DOS processes, and in a fabulous fit of freakiness, VMS tasks. You could set up a task+thread to handle paging of other tasks' address spaces. You made up a protocol spec file, then ran that through a compiler to get server and client side stubs, marshalling and unmarshalling routines, etc. They were typed, ordered streams of messages.

I believe that Mach-O files (Mach's executable file format) could specify more than one thread at process run time: no main() function that started more Cthreads, the OS would start one. A task (address space) could have more than 1 running in it. This was the schedulable unit of execution.

A 'task': that's an address space + a set of 'ports', possibly with a thread running in it.

Mach 2.0 offered a different set of abstractions at the kernel level: I used to use NeXTStep, I don't know how much current MacOSX departs from NeXTStep, but. When it comes right down to it, isn't Darwin just a thin BSD layer on top of Mach 2.0?

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