Messages in this thread | | | From | Mirian Crzig Lennox <> | Subject | Re: is Linux obsolete? | Date | 31 May 1999 12:12:10 -0400 |
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes: > Good examples of real world message passing microkernels > > AmigaOS Exec > QNX
I'd also like to add VSTa to that list... although it is definitely still in the "research" category, it has the virtue of being open source and truly a microkernel in the classic sense: the only thing the kernel does is processes and vm; everything else (device drivers, filesystems, networking, etc.) is a user process. And it is fast, even on a 486!
> Everyone forgets the Amiga, which is probably the most successful message > mass production message passing OS ever.
I absolutely adored AmigaOS in its heyday, but it was/is never general purpose enough; if it were ported to a machine without the Amiga's sexy hardware, I doubt most people would have given it a second look.
-- Mirian Crzig Lennox Systems Anarchist "Don't follow leaders... watch the parking meters." --Bob Dylan
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