Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!mimir!hugin!augean!idall From: idall@augean.OZ (Ian Dall) Newsgroups: comp.os.mach Subject: Reference Wanted Message-ID: <611@augean.OZ> Date: 4 Oct 89 04:57:31 GMT Reply-To: idall@augean.OZ (Ian Dall) Organization: Engineering Faculty, University of Adelaide, Australia Lines: 8 I am curious about "message passing kernels". It strikes me that fast context switches would be crucial to efficiency. Can anyone give me a reasonably accessible reference which describes the philosophy behind mach? -- Ian Dall life (n). A sexually transmitted disease which afflicts some people more severely than others. idall@augean.oz