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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... :-)

Barry deFreese
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