Linked by David Adams on Wed 13th Aug 2008 16:57 UTC, submitted by irbis
"I recently had the opportunity to interview Andrew S. Tanenbaum, creator of the extremely secure Unix-like operating sytem MINIX 3. Andrew is also the author of Operating Systems Design and Implementation, the must-have book on programming and designing operating systems, and the man whose work inspired Linus Torvalds to create Linux. He has published over 120 works on computers (that's including manuals, second and third editions, and translations), and his works are known all over the world, being translated into a variety of different languages for educational use universally. He is currently a professor of computer science at Vrije University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands."
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QNX is a fabulously successful microkernel OS that is used in the embedded market, where up times have to be tremendously long (like never crash). That's where microkernels come into use.
Also, AFAIK, Symbian is a microkernel.
But true, for general server and desktop usage, monolithic kernels are more practical.
But microkernels have their place.