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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!newsfeeds.sol.net!europa.clark.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!199.45.255.100!coop.net!pacifier!deraadt From: deraadt@theos.com (Theo de Raadt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 04 Apr 1997 08:17:39 GMT Organization: Theo Ports Kernels For Fun And Profit Lines: 22 Message-ID: <DERAADT.97Apr4011739@zeus.pacifier.com> 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$6u0@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com> <5i1c4i$fo@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.theos.com In-reply-to: j@uriah.heep.sax.de's message of 3 Apr 1997 22:48:50 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38442 In article <5i1c4i$fo@uriah.heep.sax.de> j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: 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. Well, Minix does message passing. (Back when I ported Minix to the sun3/50... I thought it was really horrible. It was wimpy message passing). -- This space not left unintentionally unblank. deraadt@theos.com www.OpenBSD.org -- We're fixing security problems so you can sleep at night.