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

John Alvord
2002-06-23T17:57:01Z

On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 14:09:30 -0700, "jdow" <jdow@earthlink.net> wrote:

>From: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
>
>> > 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
>
>Some things just cannot be passed by..... The Amiga HAS worked well and
>DOES work well - - - FINALLY. (It took several years and a VERY serious
>debugging effort with Bill Hawes and Bryce Nesbitt finding and quashing
>all manner of bad or missing pointer checks and the like. They made the
>OS itself a remarkable work of art.)

Was that the same Bill Hawes who hung around L-K quashing bugs for a
year or so (maybe 3-4 years ago?)

john alvord