Messages in this thread | | | From | John Alvord <> | Subject | Re: Linux, the microkernel (was Re: latest linus-2.5 BK broken) | Date | Sun, 23 Jun 2002 10:56:13 -0700 |
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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?)
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