On 6/4/07, Vihan Pandey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd rather learn with Linux than with Minix.
AST has categorically stated that for a student to be able do a course
in a semester at Virje you needed a kernel that would cover all
concepts required to be learned by a student. Hence he wrote Minix,
and its still one of the easiest things to start learning system
concepts and interactio with.
to put it in one line - would you rather start teaching computer
programming with BASIC or PL/1 ?
> *yawn* try telling me something new :)
until i understand your rationale i don't have much of a choice :-)
> > In fact the very idea of microkernels opposes all of M$'s design
> > concepts(if they ever had any).
>
> IIRC, M$'s own kernel ( Win2k or Win2k3 ) resembles a microkernel. yes,
> they too are apparent aware of the positive aspects of the microkernel.
Oh, and where did you get info from, please do post a link.
From Galvin's book's appendix (7/e):
http://codex.cs.yale.edu/avi/os-book/os7/online-dir/Win2K.pdf
See page 4.
Regards,
Mohan S N
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