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SubjectRe: Some very thought-provoking ideas about OS architecture.
DAVID BALAZIC <david.balazic@uni-mb.si> wrote:
> Now what I understood under sending messages in OS is :
>
> message_type *m;
> m = <the contents of the message>
> send_message(m [ , destination ] ) ;
>
> So the execution will not neccesarily be transfered to another piece .
> of code Just the message would be transfered to some mailbox .
>
> This is ( more or less ) how AmigaOS works.

Er.. and AmigaOS had trouble moving to a virtual memory model, let
alone to a distributed network model.

Which just goes to show you: shuffling around arguments is a tool,
not a solution in and of itself.

--
Raul

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