Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!hybrid!robohack!eci386!jmm From: jmm@eci386.uucp (John Macdonald) Subject: Re: FYI: "FSF work on a GNU OS" posted to comp.arch Message-ID: <1991May13.135411.23178@eci386.uucp> Reply-To: jmm@eci386.UUCP (John Macdonald) Organization: Elegant Communications Inc. References: <108@fbits.ttank.com> <1991May8.035642.28195@cs.yale.edu> <110@fbits.ttank.com> <75230@brunix.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13 May 1991 13:54:11 GMT In article <75230@brunix.UUCP> cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes: |In article <110@fbits.ttank.com> Mariusz@fbits.ttank.com (Mariusz Stanczak) writes: |>The microkernel idea is just few years old(new), | |The idea is about ten years old. Actually, the *idea* is more than 2 decades old. A commercial implementation of this particular idea has been available since the late 60's (you may have heard of the company that developed it, they're still around, still selling the virtual operating system, and they're blue). We can probably assume that the idea predates this point in time at least. I restrained myself from quoting Curtis' comment about missing a decimal point - he isn't quite that far out. -- sendmail - as easy to operate and as painless as using | John Macdonald manually powered dental tools on yourself - John R. MacMillan | jmm@eci386