Linus Torvald: "The basics of operating systems, and by extension the
Linux kernel, were well understood by the early 70s; anything after that
has been to some degree an exercise in self-gratification."
The danger in medical open source software is in trying to discover
something that was not already known in the 70s by the architects of
Mumps.
Torvald goes on to say, "So at the time I started work on Linux in 1991,
people assumed portability would come from a microkernel approach. You
see, this was sort of the research darling at the time for computer
scientists. However, I am a pragmatic person, and at the time I felt
that microkernels (a) were experimental, (b) were obviously more complex
than monolithic kernels, and (c) executed notably slower than monolithic
kernels." I hope that Corba does not fall into this category.
John Gage
