RE: [DEB-USER] Re: M$ licenses Unix
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net]
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 10:36 AM
> To: debian users
> Subject: 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.
>
Not that this is a good arguement but Windows NT/2000/XP are microkernel
based you know.
Hmm, now that I think about it, maybe that wasn't a good point to bring
up... :-)
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