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From: adams@littlei.UUCP (Robert Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Message based OSs (was "Re: GNU Manifesto")
Message-ID: <227@gandalf.littlei.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 88 21:00:45 GMT
References: <1447@sugar.UUCP>
Organization: Intel Corp., ISO Systems Development, Hillsboro, OR
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From article <1447@sugar.UUCP>, by peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva):
> MINIX isn't terribly real. It's realler than GNU (after all, it's out :->),
> but it's got a small fraction of V7, and it's buggy. Comes from having
> everything handled by messages.

I would like an explanation of this.  It seems like it would be a
wonderful computer architecture discussion because many systems are
moving from procedural based interfaces to message based interfaces
and, if that tends to create code that's inherently buggy, we certainly
have a problem on our hands.

Have any comments on this, Peter?  Anyone else?

	-- Robert Adams
	...!littlei!adams