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Mach

Summary

Mach is a microkernel[1]. Mach draws 415 Wikipedia views per month (microkernel category, ranking #2 of 3).[2]

Key Facts

  • Mach is the creator of Carnegie Mellon University[3].
  • Mach's instance of is recorded as microkernel[4].
  • Mach's instance of is recorded as software[5].
  • Mach's programmed in is recorded as Q15777[6].
  • Mach's programmed in is recorded as assembly language[7].
  • Mach's software version identifier is recorded as 3.0[8].
  • Mach's has use is recorded as microkernel[9].
  • +1985-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Mach[10].
  • Mach's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/058yh[11].
  • Mach's official website is recorded as http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/mach/public/www/mach.html[12].
  • Mach's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Mach (kernel)[13].
  • Mach's used by is recorded as NeXTSTEP[14].
  • Mach's name in kana is recorded as マーク[15].

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Works and Contributions

Mach is the creator of Carnegie Mellon University[3].

Why It Matters

Mach draws 415 Wikipedia views per month (microkernel category, ranking #2 of 3).[2] Mach has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16]

Mach has been cited as an influence by macOS[17], a proprietary operating system[18], founded in 2001[19] and XNU[20], a kernel[21].

FAQs

Who did Mach influence?

Mach has been cited as an influence by macOS[17] and XNU[20].

Related Entities

assembly language macOS NeXTSTEP OSF/1 Richard Rashid software

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . cs.cmu.edu. Retrieved . cs.cmu.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [18] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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