Messages in this thread |  | | | From | "jdow" <> | | Subject | Re: Linux, the microkernel (was Re: latest linus-2.5 BK broken) | | Date | Sun, 23 Jun 2002 13:48:03 -0700 |
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From: "John Alvord" <jalvo@mbay.net>
>On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 14:09:30 -0700, "jdow" <jdow@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>From: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> >> >>>> A microkernel design was actually made to work once, with good performance. >>>> It was about fifteen years ago, in the amiga. Know how they pulled it off? >>>> Commodore used a mutant ultra-cheap 68030 that had -NO- memory management >>>> unit. >>> >>> Vanilla 68000 actually. And it never worked well - the UI folks had >>> to use a library not threads. The fs performance sucked >> >>Some things just cannot be passed by..... The Amiga HAS worked well and >>DOES work well - - - FINALLY. (It took several years and a VERY serious >>debugging effort with Bill Hawes and Bryce Nesbitt finding and quashing >>all manner of bad or missing pointer checks and the like. They made the >>OS itself a remarkable work of art.)
>Was that the same Bill Hawes who hung around L-K quashing bugs for a >year or so (maybe 3-4 years ago?)
I believe it was. That is about where I lost track of him. I hope he is doing well wherever he is. You folks here should have done almost anything to keep him around.
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