begin quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] as of Wed, May 14, 2008 at 01:12:00PM -0700: > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 02:35:25AM -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > > Third, development forces are pulling things toward microkernels just > > like all processors got pulled toward RISC even if they didn't call it > > that. > > > It's easier to test; it's easier to understand; it's easier to debug. > > I'm not an expert but I think the counterargument to the "easier to > understand" is that you must implement a very complex asynchronous > message passing mechanism for your "simple" microkernel. That's why > RMS said Hurd took a long time.
>From the outside, it's not complicated at all. Which is kind of the point. -- It's just a black box, you put stuff in, you take stuff out. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
