do you have some pointers to papers from these guys? from my uneducated position, it seems to me that plan9 has a large percentage of what microkernels claim. one thing one can't do is write a hardware driver that lives in userspace. one advantage of this could be the ability to load drivers depending on configuration.
has anybody invested some brain cells in this? - erik On Wed Mar 29 19:37:48 CST 2006, [email protected] wrote: > Lots of good research came out of mach ... not what you think. sandia > national labs has done lots of great OS work for 10 years, or so, > spurred on by the unusable Mach-derived OSF-1/MK-AD that came on their > paragon, and the need to toss it and start clean. SNL did some very nice > work, all due to the need to get rid of the "micro kernel". > > ron
