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LINUX is obsolete (1992)
As most of you know, for me MINIX is a hobby, something that I do in the evening when I get bored writing books and there are no major wars, revolutions, or senate hearings being televised live on CNN. My real job is a professor and researcher in the area of operating systems.
And, in any case, while MINIX is portable in the sense that most of the codecan be ported to other platforms, it *still* suffers from the limitations ofthe original target machine that drove the walk down the design decision tree.The message passing is a kludge because the 8088 is slow. Maybe to atheorist it's an unnecessary optimization and a (to use your words)"performance hack", but I'm interested in a Real operating system ---not a research toy.=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=Theodore Ts'o bloom-beacon!mit-athena!tytso308 High St., Medford, MA 02155 ty...@athena.mit.edu Everybody's playing the game, but nobody's rules are the same! You can replace the kernel with a microkerneldesign (and MINIX isn't the be-all and end-all of microkernel designs either:even for low end PCs... look at AmigaOS) without disturbing the applications.That's the whole point of a portable API in the first place.
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