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- From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
- Subject: Re: So You Want To Be A Wizard? (A modest proposal)
- Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 04:39:49 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec14.080551.12999@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <BzAvBJ.6q7@NeoSoft.com> <1992Dec15.194702.24552@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec15.194702.24552@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> bogstad@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad) writes:
- > The other
- > advantage of Minix is that although it is a "flakey microkernel"; it is in
- > fact a microkernel. Both OSF and USL seem to be moving their kernels in
- > that direction and anyone interested in working with "Unix" systems for the
- > long term would gain from this exposure.
-
- Perhaps. I've yet to be convinced that a "Mega-Microkernel" like Minix or
- Mach is a significant advance over a "Mini-Macrokernel" like V7 UNIX or
- Plan 9. There *are* some nice microkernel operating systems, but the best
- way to explore them doesn't involve playing on any variant of UNIX. The
- Amiga doesn't have the VM interface, but it is in every real respect a
- microkernel design... with seperate execution contexts for each component
- of the system software including the device drivers, file systems, and
- window system. For a more UNIX-like microkernel try QNX, and (I suspect)
- some of the other real-time UNIX workalikes.
-
- No, you don't get to play with the source... but like object oriented
- languages, you shouldn't have to. You can do things that would require
- kernel hacking in UNIX without getting into the kernel.
- --
- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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