From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 21 11:33:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA05332 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:33:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA05327 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:33:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA13963; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:31:19 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704211831.LAA13963@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) To: james@westongold.com (James Mansion) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:31:19 -0700 (MST) Cc: abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us, freebsd-hackers@freeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <335B8BFB.D65@westongold.com> from "James Mansion" at Apr 21, 97 04:47:07 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Microkernel systems can be as efficient as monolithic ones. Modularity > > Name one. The very requirement of the boundaries will introduce a cost > that you could avoid with a direct function call. Chorus; it does not enforce protection domains between OS servers and the OS, only between the OS & OS servers and user space. http://www.chorus.com Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.