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Date:      Fri, 07 Apr 2000 16:15:08 -0700
From:      David Holloway <davidhol@windriver.com>
To:        Ugen Antsilevitch <ugen@xonix.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is traditional unixes kernel really stable ? 
Message-ID:  <200004072315.QAA01455@papermill.wrs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Apr 2000 19:09:27 EDT." <38EE6AA7.55DEA97D@xonix.com> 

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In message <38EE6AA7.55DEA97D@xonix.com>, Ugen Antsilevitch writes:
>
>
>Gustavo V G C Rios wrote:
>
>> "Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO" wrote:
>>
>> > only one :-) performance :-) context switch is a slow operation.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > emax
>>
>> Excuse me gentleman, who said that ?
>> Take time to visit this site: http://www.qnx.com/iat/download/index.html
>>
>> You'll be introduced to a hard-real time OS (with a very modular
>> design).
>> The while OS fits in a single floppy with TCP/IP, GUI, web browser, http
>> server, and again, all that in a single floppy. HOw can it be done?
>>
>> This OS uses microkernel arch.
>> Fill their form in order to get a book describing its OS internal arch.
>>
>> Can some here explain me why such approach is not taken by FreeBSD?
>>
>> PS: I never seen anything fast and reliable like that.
>
>Ugh...isn't it obvious by now that this is a shameless pitch for QNX...
>It is sad that people here actually respond to this sort of thing.
>"How come you guys are not like Linux?" questions should have
>developed some tolerance in you..
>
>QNX is great and all the power to it. This is FreeBSD and it is unix and BSD
>and as such it is what it is. If it would take a QNX approach then it would no
>t be
>FreeBSD but something rather different. Thats the answer...
>
>I am sure some people somwhere work on marrying microkernels and bsd systems
>and in fact isn't this what Darwin is all about? If you like it - there is pro
>bably a
>darwin mailing list.
>--Ugen
>

Yeah I wouldn't want to have to retaliate with 
shameless plugs of vxWorks.





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