Re: [ILUG] Re: microkernels et al

From: Rick Moen (rick at domain linuxmafia.com)
Date: Fri 03 May 2002 - 23:39:00 IST


Quoting Matthew French (mfrench42 at domain yahoo.co.uk):

> James Cooper mentioned:
>> NT is designed as a microkernel, or am i wrong?
>
> It definitely was, but from what I understand it has become more and more
> monolithic over the years.

Nick Petreley, years ago, published a technical analysis of Microsoft's
claim of microkernel architecture, in which he showed to my satisfaction
that it was a pile of nonsense, and not just on account of things moved
later into kernelspace. But you'd have to write him for details.



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