On Wednesday, 10 February 2016 at 23:55:17 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
Also because context switching got from a handful of cycle at
the time to about 1000 cycles on modern CPU, making the idea of
microkernel somewhat less attractive.
But saying Stallman released nothing is unfair. If we can
consider hurd a failure, he was also behind emacs, early gcc
and other things.
Nobody said "nothing," I specifically noted his "GNU tools" and
that a microkernel was ambitious. Just remarking that his kernel
didn't get done, for a variety of reasons.
