Re: LINUX is obsolete
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Re: LINUX is obsolete
In article <12595@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>
>I was in the U.S. for a couple of weeks, so I haven't commented much on
>LINUX (not that I would have said much had I been around), but for what
>it is worth, I have a couple of comments now.
Maybe keepng quiet would have been best.
>1. MICROKERNEL VS MONOLITHIC SYSTEM
>
> While I could go into a long story here about the relative merits of the
> two designs, suffice it to say that among the people who actually design
> operating systems, the debate is essentially over.
No, MS-DOS won. Sad, but there you are. 60 million: Next
It would be churlish to point out that MS-DOS has loadable device drivers
and that VMS is now (basically)a set of loadable service modules and drivers.
"Microkernel" was the buzz-word of last year, so Minix is a microkernel.
"Object-oriented" is this years, so Minix is object-oriented - right?
joe.
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