Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 10th Nov 2008 22:56 UTC
Saturday November 8, I received an email from someone, inquiring if I would be interested in "doing a first interview/introduction into a new operating system". We get these emails and news submissions all the time, and most of the time, "new operating system" means Ubuntu-with-a-black-theme, so we don't bother. I figured this time things wouldn't be different, but after a bit of digging around, there's a little more to it this time.
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2006-03-28
I am surely not expert in the OS internals area, but here's some possible parameters to consider:
1) "monolithic kernel sucks" is general attitude of many ppl, myself included, and you can't do anything about it :-) (you know, Amigan, message based system)
2) now really - what was interesting, was back then, when Amiga under the Gateway wings, was supposed to use QNX as a base for new OS. I remember when Linus joined the message board, with some claims, and as fast as he joined he left, because real gurus were there - with QNX. You could see many ppl claiming, that QNX had some 20-30 (micro?) sec latency, whereas Linux, at that time, some 600? Well, it was in 1997/8? I do remember Dave Haynie (one of Amiga designers) stating something like Linux was not at all usable for things like multimedia, e.g. sound, like BeOS was at that time - just because of latency. So - why had it so bad latency, while being monolithic? I suppose nowadays, the issue with latency is gone, and who knows, maybe my understanding of the issue is not correct anyway ...