Yeah well, it's a matter of semantics. Yes it doesn't run as a microkernel due to the performance penalty, but in the same address space. As I said, it's a matter of semantics, it still uses Mach to talk to the hardware, so in that sense it's still "on top" of Mach.
On 7/26/05, Eduardo Tongson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, Darwin (FreeBSD) *does* run on top of CMU Mach 4.4 just like the > > old Nextstep/Openstep on which it's based. I think they have migrated > > to a newer version of Mach, but it's still Mach. > > > No it doesn't run on *top* of Mach because it doesn't use it as a microkernel. > Darwin is monolithic and its based on Mach 3 not 4.4. This was already > discussed > on freebsd/opendarwin mailing lists. > <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2004-July/007467.html> > <http://www.opendarwin.org/pipermail/hackers/2003-April/003805.html> > <http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/arch/2005-01/0054.html> > <http://www.opendarwin.org/pipermail/discuss/2004-October/004749.html> _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
