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		msbarnett on Feb 23, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mach's designers simply assumed that systems would... Mach 3.0 was folded into XNU in roughly the same way that earlier versions of Mach were used, but with more of the BSD functionality ported down into Mach rather than hosted POE-style in kernel space. So 3.0 was adopted, with success, but not as a microkernal hosting user-space servers.

glhaynes on Feb 23, 2011 [–]

Does "POE" stand for something? POSIX Operating Environment, maybe? A quick Googling and a look at the Mach Wikipedia page doesn't reveal the answer.

msbarnett on Feb 24, 2011 | | [–]

I poked around various mailing lists and even an archive of the poe source from a CMU server, but I couldn't find an authoritative expansion.

quadhome on Feb 24, 2011 | | [–]

Proof of example.

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