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Plan9 is not microkernel.

• davidw 16y ago
  Oops, sorry, good point.
• jacquesm 16y ago
  I've gone through an 'alternative operating system' phase at some point and played around with all kinds of them. I don't even think minix is a micro-kernel (Tanenbaum thinks it is), but QnX definitely is the real deal. There are some very interesting concepts in Plan 9 that linux could have taken advantage of though.
  • davidw 16y ago
    > There are some very interesting concepts in Plan 9 that linux could have taken advantage of though. Given what I posted above, it's not clear that Plan 9 was really on Linus' radar when he started or in the formative years of Linux. When Plan 9 came out, radically changing Linux might have been a significant departure from a working system with a growing amount of software available for it.
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