W91 USENIX in retrospect

Paul Traina pst at jessica.Stanford.EDU
Wed Feb 6 00:49:39 AEST 1991


In article <1991Feb4.223144.14566 at zoo.toronto.edu> henry at zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:


   And is it really appropriate to call 60,000 lines of source a "micro" kernel?
   (Mach.)

You're right Henry,  UNIX kernels are too slow and bloated.

I could have done the whole thing in...oh, I dunno, maybe...AWK!?!

...yeah...AWK, that's it, that's the ticket!

		/vmunix_awk

						Paul

p.s. :-)



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