Micro Kernel Question

Alaric Williams alaric@alaric-williams.com
Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:27:04 +0100 (BST)


On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Pat Wendorf wrote:

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> which I guess would classify as a kernel wouldn't it?

In my long debate with Fare about this some time ago, I decided that
calling a system kernelless was about splitting hairs on definitions -
there would always be some fundamental metamodule somewhere, which was
basically a kernel unless you went for some predefine strict definition of
kernel which depended on the person :-)

ABW

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