Messages in this thread |  | | | From | "Alan Olsen" <> | | Date | Sun, 7 Mar 1999 10:22:50 -0800 | | Subject | Re: Philosophical issue type thing.... |
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On Mar 6, 10:24pm, Michael Loftis wrote: > Subject: Philosophical issue type thing....
> When Linux was first written it was a Macro-kernel, plain and true. > Everything the kernel did, it did in itself. Somewhere along the line > we picked up an external agent for managing bad buffers, bdflush. > Nothing was thought of it. > > In recent incantations we've got what are called 'kernel threads' -- > Really what they amount to are a little piece of the micro-kernel world > sneaking into the macro-kernel of Linux. > > I'm not saying this is bad, just interesting. The point I'm making is > that if things are working towards clustered computing, Micro-kernels > have a distinct advantage in this arena. The MACH 4 micro-kernel (of > which I have not been keeping tabs) would be better modified into a > fully-cluster-aware-and-capable system than taking the existing Linux > base. > > Last I knew MACH was a semi-stable micro-k... That was a year or so > ago. > > Just an interesting thought blurb... Are we heading towards a > micro-kernel?
Actually the goal is to fold Wine into the kernel eventually. I figure it should be done around kernel version 6.6.6.
> Linus, Alan, Anyone?
Oops... Wrong Alan. ]:>
-- Alan Olsen "Carpe Aptenodytes!" alano@ncd.com
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