alt Hacker News> As Mach was conceived and mostly designed by an academic with no real world industry experience in shipping kernels.
You may be thinking of Andrew S. Tanenbaum, who created MINIX, and was famously blasted by Linus for not having industry experience.
Mach was written by guys who ended leading Microsoft Reaearch and software development at Apple.
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ziddoap • 11/08/2024
>was famously blasted by Linus for not having industry experience.
I answered my own question (where to read more about this), and found the relevant information from https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/appa.html
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They did that later, but it is accurate to say that when Mach was first designed, Rick Rashid and others lacked "industry experience". However, they had a lot of practical experience making real systems for academic purposes. The CS departments at U of Rochester and CMU are serious about building stuff.