Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 22 Jan 1997 20:24:02 -0200 (EDT) | From | Fabio Olive Leite <> | Subject | Re: Good point of Linux over Windows NT |
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Hi there,
> "Let's do system calls via RPC, how clean, how nice, I love Mach, I > love external pagers..." > > ... Let's see you get 11.26MB/s over 100baseT with that system on > something other than a 400MHZ Alpha, good luck even with that
That's a very good point. I was just amazed this days when reading about Tanenbaum's Amoeba: he just assumes all machines will have hundreds of megabytes, doesn't use (or don't know how to code <grin>) swap, not even paging!
If we were stuck with what the "filosophers" say in books (and Tanembaum said NFS is very poor as a Distributed OS; maybe he doesn't know it was never meant to be one) we would be damned...
> I hope most people hacking Linux don't view systems design and > engineering in this way, Linus has brought us up much better than that > ;-)
Sure thing! In two years with Linux I currently know more about OS Design than some of my teachers... :) I currently "use" linux-kernel as an ever lasting Operating Systems/Compilers class :)).
BTW, I think Linux is mature enough not to need comparisons. When people argue against Linux, just say it's the OS who supports the biggest number of protocols, filesystem types, architectures, insert_your_need_here. If it's wrong nowadays, soon it won't! :)
[] Fabio ( Fabio Olive Leite leitinho@akira.ucpel.tche.br ) ( Computer Science Student http://akira.ucpel.tche.br/~leitinho ) ( ) ( Running Linux is like running an Amiga; ) ( It gives you that "I don't buy Microsoft" feeling... )
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