| Date | Sun, 22 Oct 2000 16:58:45 -0600 | From | "Dwayne C . Litzenberger" <> | Subject | Re: Topic for discussion: OS Design |
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On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 08:53:26AM +1000, Peter Waltenberg wrote: > Use the GNU Hurd, it won't run on most hardware you'd like to use, and it's > probably slower than Linux, but it's a microkernel.
I'll ignore that.
> I've worked with microkernels, IMHO, they suck :). Good idea, but fundamentally > flawed. The same things that make them more robust (and they are more robust) > also kill performance.
Could you elaborate? AFAIK, both Neutrino and exec.library are microkernels, and they by no means lack performance. Even Windows is a microkernel (sort of), and it doesn't lack in performance that much.
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