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So funny. Linus would be probably kicked out of Tanenbaum's OS class, and most of Andy's predictions were incorrect (still waiting for my GNU/HURD on MIPS). The

by bitL 8y ago

So funny. Linus would be probably kicked out of Tanenbaum's OS class, and most of Andy's predictions were incorrect (still waiting for my GNU/HURD on MIPS). The lesson is not to get discouraged by prevailing winds of academia I guess, they have different objectives, and their processing of reality is on a more abstract level, meaning ideas might look better in theory, but not so great in practice.

pjmlp 8y ago
It is running on the radio chip of your mobile phone. https://gdmissionsystems.com/products/secure-mobile/hypervisor https://gdmissionsystems.com/products/secure-mobile/hypervis...
- AnimalMuppet 8y ago
  Which is mildly interesting, but a long way from "microkernels are where OSes are going in the next decade or two (from 1992)". Microkernels were not a completely worthless idea, and they have appeared here and there. But in terms of OSes, they lost for three decades after Tannenbaum's statement.