Rashid then decided to use an early embrace strategy and startedĭesigning the third generation OS project called Mach. The result emerged in 1981 and was called Accent.Īccent kept running at CMU until 1984 but was by then being run over by In 1979 he moved his socks to Carnegie Mellon University to continue his research on message passing operating systems.
One of the engineers behind the project was Richard Rashid. The system was called the Rochester Intelligent Gateway and ran on a 16 bit mini computer called Eclipse from Data General. It was invented to demonstrate how operating systems could be built using a modular design where processes communicated using message passing, even across networks.
Everything actually started at the University of Rochester in 1975.
