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Re: microkludgery (was Re: DEC-bashing)

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On Wednesday, April 8, 1992 at 10:46:15 AM UTC-7, Peter da Silva wrote:
> In article <1992Apr6.0...@decuac.dec.com> m...@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. "will do TCP/IP for food" Ranum) writes:
> > Does anyone really have any hard evidence that microkernels
> > are worth jack?
> Well, QNX gets pretty good performance. One thing they did was make sure their
> microkernel fit in the 8K on-chip cache on the 80486. Another common operating
> system with a microkernel design is AmigaOS. Neither of these systems have a
> 4MB "microkernel". Both run on commodity processors in under 512K, in fact.
> Don't extrapolate from some bad implementations of the idea to the conclusion
> that the idea doesn't work.
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