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Wait what? Minix and macOS via Mach are both microkernel designs. Minix is Unix-like but macOS is Unix. Im not following your contention.
by meddlepal 6y ago
Wait what? Minix and macOS via Mach are both microkernel designs. Minix is Unix-like but macOS is Unix.
Im not following your contention.
- zokula 6y agoThe XNU kernel in macOS is not a microkernel.
- pjmlp 6y agoIt follow a mikro kernel like design though. And when Apple is finished with moving all kernel extensions to userspace, it might as well be considered as such. By the way the extensions that were deprecated in Catalina, are now removed in Big Sur, as promised by 2019 roadmap. So eventually, all extensions will be gone from the kernel.
- fortran77 6y agoWindows NT is much more of a Microkernel than MacOS is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_kernel#:~:text=The%20Windows%20NT%20design%20includes,first%2Dlevel%20interrupt%20handling%2C%20thread https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_kernel#:~:text=The%20Wi...