Quote: the Mach kernel provides a small set of primitive functions and abstractions for building complete system environments

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[Mach] provides a small set of primitive functions … The Mach kernel abstractions … provide a base upon which complete system environments … varying system configurations on different classes of machines …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: Mach's primitive functions allow more complex services and resources to be represented as references to objects

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