W91 USENIX in retrospect

Henry Spencer henry at zoo.toronto.edu
Tue Feb 5 09:31:44 AEST 1991


In article <ELF.91Feb4151419 at giza.cis.ohio-state.edu> terri_watson at cis.ohio-state.edu writes:
>micro kernels:
>do you have to pay a severe penalty for message passing?  are they
>easier to debug?  more flexible?  one argument is that such kernels
>are more effective in providing mechanism, not policy

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