Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:36:44 -0400 | From | Raul Miller <> | Subject | Re: Some very thought-provoking ideas about OS architecture. |
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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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