Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: W91 USENIX in retrospect
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.223144.14566@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <26879@ucsd.Edu> <10404@muffin.cme.nist.gov> <ELF.91Feb4151419@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 1991 22:31:44 GMT

In article <ELF.91Feb4151419@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu> terri_watson@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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