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From: ashok@stiatl.UUCP (Ashok Yerneni)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?
Keywords: GNU OS features kernel fun!
Message-ID: <5021@stiatl.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 89 14:36:44 GMT
References: <106326@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <395@amc-gw.UUCP>
Reply-To: ashok@stiatl.UUCP (Ashok Yerneni)
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In article <395@amc-gw.UUCP> jhall@amc-gw.UUCP (John Hall) writes:
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>Device driver interfaces, distributed files, and resources all could
>be implemented as servers, and each server could handle it's own security,
>resource allocation, etc. dynamically.  Also, you could have servers
>do wildcard parsing.  Think of all the traverse(), parse_path(),
>search_file(), routines that would obsolete.

  a typical problem with server based implementations is the additional
  layer of software that slows down the overall performance. A typical example
  is the comparison of performance between kernel based windowing systems like
  SUN view and server based systems like Xwindows.
   
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