> For the uninitiated, rewriting an Operating system seems like a > daunting task. I've received private emails where people doubt our > ability to pull this off. I ask just for a few minutes of your time so > that I may present to all of you a simplified analysis of the task we Simplistic would be the right epithet, not simplified... > face. I will use the netserver as an example, but the same reasoning > can be applied to all servers (but not the kernel). The microkernel > architecture designed by BeInc makes the whole task a lot simpler than > with monolithic systems. BeOS is not a microkernel. > So, what is the netserver and what does it do (from an OS programmers > perspective)? > > - for a microkernel based architecture, the netserver is just another BeOS is not a microkernel. etc, manuel,