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That sounds fun, but a very bad use of time. Linus' monolithic kernel won out over Tanenbaum's microkernel, because it just worked. In the 1990s that was impo
by rmrfstar 7y ago
That sounds fun, but a very bad use of time.
Linus' monolithic kernel won out over Tanenbaum's microkernel, because it just worked. In the 1990s that was important.
Now we want it to work and not get totally pwned because we opened a sketchy email attachment before we had our coffee. Tanenbaum was right [1], but for the wrong reasons, and way too early.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_debate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_deb...