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From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
Cc: steve jenkin <stevej098@gmail.com>, TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>,
	Marc Donner <marc.donner@gmail.com>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Thoughts on Licenses
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2022 15:48:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2PoEnCKEb=masdGywXAhsFMoHzHUheqXkPv9SHGdCJ=6A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <08E9845C-CA79-4CBD-B7F1-508F0E5D1AF6@iitbombay.org>

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On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 1:48 PM Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org> wrote:

> Er.. a "microkernel" without an MMU is basically nothing more than a
> thread switcher (not unlike a variety of "realtime" embedded kernels like
> threadX and what not).
>
Argue with Andy and not me and read his book.   Andy calls it a
message-based uK.  Given how they structured it. I would agree.

>
> I think Tanenbaum's point was that MINIX3 is *nothing* like MINIX1 except
> in name.
>
Having talked to Andy about this in person, as well as looking at the code,
I think I differ with your interpretation

yes, M3 supports a ton of things M1 did not.  But the core API and KPI are
supersets.

I also know a bit about what Intel uses for the IPMI support as part of my
$ day job. Let's just say this is a great deal that is known outside of
Intel and a good bit that is not and/or misunderstood.

My point that started this rat hole was that Larry made a comment about V7
having little value.   I know for a fact Larry's observation was not true.
And how we use the core Minix subsystem (*as a basic V7 platform for a
single custom application* that allows us to manage the server - as I said
to Larry think the LS1-11 on the Vax and the 11/40 on the KL processors)
and offered it as a counter-example.   It could have been almost anything
that you called a thread switcher.  A simple V7 was 'good enough' and Minux
supplied that for the team.

In fact, I can think of other applications where V6 or V7 is more than
enough for a lot of the tasks.




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  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-03 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-02 18:15 [TUHS] " Clem Cole
2022-07-02 19:07 ` [TUHS] " Marc Donner
2022-07-02 20:57   ` Warner Losh
2022-07-02 21:02     ` Larry McVoy
2022-07-02 23:54       ` Clem Cole
2022-07-03  2:03         ` Warner Losh
2022-07-03  2:27           ` Larry McVoy
2022-07-03  8:11             ` steve jenkin
     [not found]             ` <F579710B-5568-431D-92CC-88D49C3D9BE6@gmail.com>
2022-07-03 14:39               ` Larry McVoy
2022-07-03 14:59                 ` Clem Cole
2022-07-03 15:30                   ` Bakul Shah
2022-07-03 16:26                     ` Clem Cole
2022-07-03 16:55                       ` Kevin Bowling
2022-07-03 17:15                         ` Clem Cole
2022-07-03 17:48                       ` Bakul Shah
2022-07-03 19:48                         ` Clem Cole [this message]
2022-07-03 21:23                           ` Matthias Bruestle
2022-07-03 22:40                             ` Clem Cole
2022-07-04  3:01                               ` Norman Wilson
2022-07-04 12:33                             ` Paul Winalski
2022-07-03 21:38 ` Jay Logue via TUHS

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