Re: Linux, the microkernel (was Re: latest linus-2.5 BK broken)

Alan Cox
2002-06-22T15:10:50Z

> A microkernel design was actually made to work once, with good performance.
> It was about fifteen years ago, in the amiga. Know how they pulled it off?
> Commodore used a mutant ultra-cheap 68030 that had -NO- memory management
> unit.

Vanilla 68000 actually. And it never worked well - the UI folks had
to use a library not threads. The fs performance sucked