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- From: trt@duke.cs.duke.edu (Tom Truscott)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.mach
- Subject: Re: Mach vs. NT?
- Message-ID: <724276683@romeo.cs.duke.edu>
- Date: 13 Dec 92 19:58:04 GMT
- References: <Bz0vGv.38x@eis.calstate.edu> <J8DNVB1w165w@bluemoon.use.com> <1992Dec13.102359.27514@microsoft.com>
- Organization: IBM RTP
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- >3. NT is a micro-kernel architecture ...
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- Since when? A micro-kernel is not merely modular,
- it also enforces (e.g. via the MMU) a separation between
- itself and other parts of the OS. For example, networking
- and file systems are implemented with user-mode processes.
- Some UNIX implementations dynamically load (and unload)
- those pieces into the kernel, but the result is a modular and flexible
- traditional kernel -- not a micro-kernel.
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- When David Cutler presented NT at the
- Usenix Workshop on "Micro-kernels and Other Kernels Architectures",
- he opened his talk by saying he was there as one of the "Other Kernels".
- Was he mistaken?
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- Tom Truscott
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