[openbeos] Re: BeOS a microkernel?
- From: Michael Noisternig <michael.noisternig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: OpenBeOS List <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 12:55:42 +0100
>So, technically, BeOS is not a microkernel per this definition. However,
>I'm not convinced yet that the term microkernel was this well defined from
>the start. From what I can tell, it would appear that originally a
>microkernel was "minimalized" kernel, but little distinction was made
>concerning where it lived
This is not true. The definition of a microkernel exists at least since
Tanenbaum's Minix (and that was
before Linux was even born). By
this definition only what follows is part of a microkernel: - dispatching
- message passing
- some memory management, paging, protection
- low level I/O
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