On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 08:53:26AM +1000, Peter Waltenberg wrote:
> Use the GNU Hurd, it won't run on most hardware you'd like to use, and it's
> probably slower than Linux, but it's a microkernel.
I'll ignore that.
> I've worked with microkernels, IMHO, they suck :). Good idea, but fundamentally
> flawed. The same things that make them more robust (and they are more robust)
> also kill performance.
Could you elaborate? AFAIK, both Neutrino and exec.library are microkernels,
and they by no means lack performance. Even Windows is a microkernel (sort
of), and it doesn't lack in performance that much.
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