Linus Torvald's Thoughts on Mach

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"Frankly, I think it's a piece of crap."

...so says Torvalds in his new autobiography Just For Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary, as reported on /.. Torvalds, who Jobs asked to join Apple in their effort to create OS X back in '97, feels that the Mach microkernel, at the heart of OS X, is riddled with design mistakes. Take a look at the ZDNet UK article in question.

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