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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!fwi.uva.nl!not-for-mail From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Is BSD a Microkernel OS? Date: 19 Oct 1994 11:29:33 +0100 Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam Lines: 13 Distribution: world Message-ID: <382sed$25c@mail.fwi.uva.nl> References: <mselbyCxw11q.n3u@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.fwi.uva.nl 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. No. But don't let the microkernel-hype get you. From a design point of view, microkernels are superior, because they force modularity. However, you can use modularisation in a monolithic kernel too. And people have discovered that you really can't afford to build a pure micro kernel, it's just too slow. Casper