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From: cweng@taco.engr.ucdavis.edu (~{#@HNNRRy#@~})
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?)
Date: 4 Apr 1997 18:41:07 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering - University of California - Davis
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: 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
It has been a while since I took that Operating system course( 3 years
already.:) So what I am saying might not be correct. I think the Minix
kernel is the kernel has nothing but the essential parts of an operating
system. Everything else like device drivers are not included in the
kernel. And the difference between microkernel and monolithic is that
monolithic kernel has everything inside the kernel vs. microkernel only
have the core of the operating system service routines. I think I saw a
new version of the operating system design and implementation book in the
book store. I might go there and check a little since things might have
changed.
Terrence
: 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. ;-)