Correct. The Mach research project at Carnegie Mellon aimed to build a replacement kernel for BSD that supported distributed and parallel computing.
Next's VP of Software Engineering, Avie Tevanian, was one of the Mach project leads. Richard Rashid, who lead the Mach project ended up running Microsoft Research's worldwide operations.
Their work on a virtual memory subsystem got rolled back into BSD.
Next's VP of Software Engineering, Avie Tevanian, was one of the Mach project leads. Richard Rashid, who lead the Mach project ended up running Microsoft Research's worldwide operations.
Their work on a virtual memory subsystem got rolled back into BSD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)
The Computer History Museum has an interesting long form interview with Avie:
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwCdKU9uYnE Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtpIFrOGTHk