On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 22:15, Jimen Ching wrote: > On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Dustin Cross wrote: > >This got me interested, so I started doing some reading. BeOS is based on > >a microkernel, written in C, everything else in the OS is done via servers > >which were written in C++. > > This makes more sense. The Be people can call them servers. But they're > just applications that run on top of the microkernel. >
I think "servers" is the accepted terminology when it talks about core the subsystems running on top of a microkernel. At least that's how the Hurd kernel project describes their microkernel design.
