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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!philapd!apdnews!mango.apd.dec.com!wilko From: wilko@apd.dec.com (Wilko Bulte) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Is BSD a Microkernel OS? Message-ID: <wilko.782568261@mango.apd.dec.com> Date: 19 Oct 94 12:04:21 GMT References: <mselbyCxw11q.n3u@netcom.com> Sender: news@apd.dec.com Lines: 15 mselby@netcom.com (Michael Selby) writes: > Is BSD a microkernel operating system? I have often heard that >the microkernel OS is head and shoulders above monolithic. Standard BSD is not microkernel. Several vendors are working on microkernel incarnations of BSD derived systems. Wilko -- | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte mail: wilko@apd.dec.com |/|/ / / /( (_) |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| Equipment Corporation voice: +3155-432062 fax: +3155-432103 DTN: 829 2062 PO Box 245 - 7300 AE Apeldoorn - The Netherlands