On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 03:18:12PM +0100, Niklas H?glund wrote: > On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 01:26:28PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > The Hurd isn't an OS. GNU is the OS, the Hurd is the core of that OS. > > I'd say Mach is the core, and the Hurd a layer on top of that. Of course Mach is also part of the core, but it doesn't have to be. In the future we probably switch to L4 and/or other microkernels. > Maybe we should say "Mach, the next generation" :) Mach is a first generation microkernel, L4 a second generation microkernel. So Mach isn't the "next generation". :-) Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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