Re: LINUX is obsolete

• Subject: Re: LINUX is obsolete
• From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
• Date: 3 Feb 92 16:22:32 GMT
• Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
• Organization: Xenix Support, FICC

 In article <1992Jan31.094937.3726@ohm.york.ac.uk> pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-Pete French.) writes:
 > But on the points about microkernel v monolithic, isnt this partly an
 > artifact of the language being used ?
 
 I doubt it.
 
   [isn't MINIX]
 > written as separate programs simply because C does not support the idea
 > of multiple processes within a single piece of monolithic code.
 
 C doesn't support formatted I/O either, but it can be implemented quite
 effectively in C. So can concurrent processes. I've done it, in fact.
 The resulting code is 90% portable (the 10% being the code that handles
 the context switch).
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