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[edit] Mac history

Thanks for your fixes to Mac 68K emulator. You seem to have a deep knowledge of Mac history; we always appreciate such historical and technical details. Thanks! --Brownsteve 08:06, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copland memory management

Hi, thanks for your additions to Copland (operating system). I was surprised by your change "Copland therefore was to use a Mach-inspired memory management system", as I've never heard that before. Can I ask your source for that bit of info? MFNickster 15:53, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

The Copland VM architecture (and other stuff) is documented in "Mac OS 8 Revealed", by Tony Francis, Apple Press, 1996.

Okay, but the book doesn't say a word about Mach, though it does talk about microkernels. MFNickster (talk) 04:45, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
The book doesn't directly discuss Mach, but the VM chapter describes Mach's VM system in a nutshell, with some of the weirder bits removed. If drawing that obvious conclusion is considered original research, we'd probably better delete that phrase.
It's intriguing enough to keep, if we can find a reference. Do you know of any developer documentation from that period which talks about the design? MFNickster (talk) 00:48, 25 November 2007 (UTC)