The Mach operating system was designed to incorporate the many recent innovations in operating system research to produce a technically advanced and fully functional system. Mach incorporates multiprocessing support throughout which is extremely flexible and ranges from shared memory systems to systems with no memory shared between processors.
Mach is an operating system kernel developed at Carnegie-Mellon University to support operating system research, primarily distributed and parallel computation. The project at CMU ran from 1985 to 1994.
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Mach Operating System. What is Mach, History of Mach, factors were considered in making the Mach operating system, Exception Handling, Features and Advantages?