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- From: sritchie@cs.ubc.ca (Stuart Ritchie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: New RISC workstations / 88110 demise
- Date: 7 Nov 1992 14:55:39 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- In article <TTN.92Nov7121543@kivikkorastas.cs.tut.fi> ttn@cs.tut.fi (Tero Nieminen) writes:
- >Mach 3 is a true micro kernel, unlike the Mach 2 that is a traditional
- >monolithic kernel.
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- Well, depends on how you look at it. Also, I don't think anyone
- has really figured out what a microkernel is. Where do you draw
- the line?
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- In terms of abstractions, I think March 3.0 is perhaps a microkernel.
- In terms of implementation, there's nothing "micro" about it.
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- Stuart
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