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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 3 Apr 1997 22:48:50 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5i1c4i$fo@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <332c9a76.3278270@news.adelaide.on.net> <332f5ffb.519605@news.sprynet.com> <5h51ma$b1u$2@kayrad.ziplink.net> <3337e3ad.1847437@news.sprynet.com> <5hbh2g$gah$1@kayrad.ziplink.net> <333990e3.2587820@news.sprynet.com> <5hlju0$ftk$1@news.belwue.de> <5hmlnk$c3m@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> <333EE7B4.237C228A@freebsd.org> <5hp7oe$6u0@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38441 Dong Lin <donglin@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > The education OS used years back in Davis called Minix was > microkernel, it didn't do multithreading. Minix indeed has a small kernel, and i've been impressed to see a live Minix on a 286/12 running TCP/IP recently. However, i don't think Minix can count as a microkernel architecture. This term doesn't refer to a particular size of the kernel (and mind you, there are Mach 3 descendants that have really huge kernels), but to the message- passing technology architecture. I don't think this is how Minix works. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)