Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: is Linux obsolete? | Date | Sun, 30 May 1999 22:39:24 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> The quintessential microkernel operating system is Mach. It is based > on passing messages between independent services. The memory
Please don't use Mach as an example. Mach is a research tool, it is very big, it nowdays uses the same address space for the kernel too.
Good examples of real world message passing microkernels
AmigaOS Exec QNX
Everyone forgets the Amiga, which is probably the most successful message mass production message passing OS ever.
Alan
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