Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux, the microkernel (was Re: latest linus-2.5 BK broken) | Date | Sat, 22 Jun 2002 16:31:36 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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