[openbeos] Re: Debunking the complexity
- From: "Manuel Jesus Petit de Gabriel" <freston@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 07:22:46 -0700
> 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,
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