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Re: [DEB-USER] Re: M$ licenses Unix



On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 17:18, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 02:47:16AM +0300, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> 
> <snip>
[snip]
> This is a point in Linus' favor. He's very pragmatic about the whole 
> thing. Tanenbaum's arguments may have been persuasive from a theoretical 
> standpoint, but the dearth of microkernel OSes pretty much proves that 
> 1) they are unbelievably complex to implement, and 2) they suffer very 
> severe performance problems except on very powerful hardware.

Except for QNX, which has had excellent performance since the
late 80s.

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