In <20000609142023.A2191@burza.icm.edu.pl> Rafal Maszkowski (rzm@icm.edu.pl) wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 07:41:26AM -0400, Johan Kullstam wrote:
>> Tonglu Yi <tlyi@fm365.com> writes:
>> > linux is not micro kernel based OS, would it change to that in the
>> > future?
>> never say never, but the chances of this happening are slim and none.
>> especially since linux has automatic loading and unloading of kernel
>> modules, the advantages of microkernel are few.
> I think some Macintosh version is microkernel based.
No, no. It's not micokernel based. It's done this way: there are mach micro
kernel on low level and this micro kernel has EXACTLY one process running:
slightly modified linux kernel. So basically it just slow down everything
and make kernel bigger (why it was done at all then? it simplified porting :-)
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