Before we get into - "Oh not this again!" and "Duh! but Linux Won!" and "Microkernels are still a better design"... Remember, today's lucky 10,000... http://x

Before we get into - "Oh not this again!" and "Duh! but Linux Won!" and "Microkernels are still a better design"... Remember, today's lucky 10,000... http://xkcd.com/1053/ http://xkcd.com/1053/ Actually, I always enjoy reading this whenever it comes up. I was just about to start a university computing science degree course at this time and was reading Tanenbaum in preparation. This was a debate that was alive for years throughout the computing community I was part of. In the end reality came down to what always wins in computing (and in life too). Running code beats design. Design is always 'better'.