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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Demo/game to OS friendly part II
- Date: 5 Feb 1996 13:17:07 +0100
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4f4sg3$6p0@serpens.rhein.de>
- References: <john.hendrikx.4ai4@grafix.xs4all.nl> <PETERM.96Feb3143220@tui.maths.irl.cri.nz> <4f4m7t$9gn@news.uit.no>
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- paul@stud.cs.uit.no (Paal Christian Currie) writes:
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- >The Mach microkernel (that someone here proposed a long time ago) is
- >the worst there is. Firstly the filesystem is compiled into the kernel
- >(and yes it's still regarded as a microkernel).
-
- Huh ? Maybe it is linked into the boot image to avoid the chicken-and-egg
- problem to load more software.
-
- >Secondly, system routines
- >are SLOW. It takes 6000 clock cycles to execute a system routine that
- >just returns.
-
- You mean Mach in the implementation of KludgeMach needs that ?
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