Re: LINUX is obsolete
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Re: LINUX is obsolete
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Subject: Re: LINUX is obsolete
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From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
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Date: 3 Feb 92 16:22:32 GMT
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Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
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Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
In article <1992Jan31.094937.3726@ohm.york.ac.uk> pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-Pete French.) writes:
> But on the points about microkernel v monolithic, isnt this partly an
> artifact of the language being used ?
I doubt it.
[isn't MINIX]
> written as separate programs simply because C does not support the idea
> of multiple processes within a single piece of monolithic code.
C doesn't support formatted I/O either, but it can be implemented quite
effectively in C. So can concurrent processes. I've done it, in fact.
The resulting code is 90% portable (the 10% being the code that handles
the context switch).
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