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From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] Microkernels (was: OS for IBM PC (was: Algol68 vs. C at Bell Labs))
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 06:51:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160707105108.GC24016@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160707022020.GB78278@eureka.lemis.com>

Greg 'groggy' Lehey scripsit:

> Tandem's Guardian was a microkernel, and a very successful one at
> that.  

I doubt if anyone knew or knows that who didn't work there.  I did a
lot of TAL programming on those machines, and I had no clue about the
structure of the kernel.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic
arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender.
                --Philip Guedalla


  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-07 10:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-04 16:54 [TUHS] OS for IBM PC (was: Algol68 vs. C at Bell Labs) Norman Wilson
2016-07-04 18:13 ` Larry McVoy
2016-07-04 21:12   ` Clement T. Cole
2016-07-07  2:20   ` [TUHS] Microkernels (was: OS for IBM PC (was: Algol68 vs. C at Bell Labs)) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-07 10:51     ` John Cowan [this message]
2016-07-07 23:36       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey

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