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SubjectRe: Topic for discussion: OS Design
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 04:58:45PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote:

> Could you elaborate? AFAIK, both Neutrino and exec.library are microkernels,
> and they by no means lack performance. Even Windows is a microkernel (sort
> of), and it doesn't lack in performance that much.

Exec.library with it's aproximately 6kb can hardly be compared with a
full featured kernel like Linux. Look at something like filesystems.
If you write a multithreaded filesystem for the Amiga you'll hit alot
of complexity which you'll never have to think about for a monolithic
kernel. Makes monolithic kernels look sweet as sugar in comparison.

Ralf
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