Point well taken but how are you going to provide micro-kernel protection?.
Cliff
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From: Ryan Heise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, July 18, 1999 11:09 PM
Subject: Re: [JOS-Kernel] Construction of a new Java Operating System
>Cliff Baeseman wrote:
>
>> JOS is also based on a single instance JVM design. This is a very poor
>> design in my opinion.
>
>It allows you to share 15 megs of system classes between applications.
>It allows you to have one thread scheduler across all applications. It
>allows you to have one garbage collecter and memory manager across all
>applications. There are a few other optimizations that are possible.
>
>> One exception and the whole os is going to go down.
>
>One exception and the current thread goes down. Sure, if the JVM
>crashes, then the whole operating system effectively goes down, but that
>is just like saying if the Linux kernel crashes, the whole operating
>system goes down.
>
>--
>Ryan Heise
>
>http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~rheise/
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