From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <409aa6e822d9df740d1c14e188ccb507@quanstro.net> From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 08:48:00 -0500 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] minix the micokernel is back! a slashdot take MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 50241c0e-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 this was in response to tanenbaum's ieee article: http://www.computer.org/portal/site/computer/menuitem.5d61c1d591162e4b0ef1bd108bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=computer_level1_article&TheCat=1005&path=computer/homepage/0506&file=cover1.xml&xsl=article.xsl& it's another purportedly general article that spends quite a bit of time talking about the latest version of minix. i'm suprised that he didn't spend any time taking about amoeba. plan 9 has the interesting ability to be as monolithic has one would like. one could build the filesystem into the kernel, or not as is typical. the network stack could live outside the kernel, or not as is typical. the devdraw could live outside the kernel, or not as is typical. etc. for all these, the service could live on another machine. - erik On Fri May 12 08:04:26 CDT 2006, arnold@skeeve.com wrote: > A friend forwarded this to me. Thought the crowd here would > appreciate it. > > > Just caught this on Slashdot... > > > > O Tanenbaum, O Tanenbaum > > Your microk3rn3l rul3z! > > O Tanenbaum, O Tanenbaum > > Those m0n0lithic foolz! > > They build a kernel all-in-one, > > Where all the bugs can have free run. > > O Tanenbaum, O Tanenbaum > > Those Linux guys just drool. ;)