[Sussex] LINUX takes on XServe

Steve Dobson SDobson at manh.com
Tue Oct 29 15:59:01 UTC 2002


All

On 29 October 2002 at 14:17 wisely wrote:
<snip> 
> The reviewer points to a few things about virtual memory and 
> the like.  One point he didn't make (and Steve will back will agree 
> vigorously with this) is that OS X is a Micokernel architecture
> (Mach 3) and LINUX is a Monolithic kernel architecture.  In General
> microkernels are slower than Monolithic kernels (although this is
> not always the case).

I vigorously agrees with the point about the Microkernel (didn't
want to make a liar out of you Geoff :-)

Steve




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