From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <6e35c06204121715206e5ee022@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:20:54 -0800 From: Jack Johnson To: David Leimbach , Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme mailreader In-Reply-To: <3e1162e604121710527abe8fd5@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3e1162e6041216070874f424e5@mail.gmail.com> <9ccf822edf0a9a77c141ae47312638dd@collyer.net> <3e1162e604121710527abe8fd5@mail.gmail.com> Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1a47432a-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:52:51 -0800, David Leimbach wrote: > Mac OS X is not a microkernel architecture... but it does "have a > microkernel" :). I wonder how much of this is just NeXT heritage rather than purposefully to make the actual work of building/upgrading OS X any easier (or any other potentially valid reason)? -Jack