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Re: LINUX is obsolete

 In article <1992Feb5.145630.759@wpi.WPI.EDU> entropy@wintermute.WPI.EDU (Lawrence C. Foard) writes:
 >Actually my main problem with OS theorists is that they have never tested
 >there ideas! 
 I'm mortally insulted.  I AM NOT A THEORIST.  Ask anybody who was at our
 department meeting yesterday (in joke).
 
 Actually, these ideas have been very well tested in practice.  OSF is betting
 its whole business on a microkernel (Mach 3.0).  USL is betting its business
 on another one (Chorus).  Both of these run lots of software, and both have
 been extensively compared to monolithic systems.  Amoeba has been fully
 implemented and tested for a number of applications.  QNX is a microkernel
 based system, and someone just told me the installed base is 200,000 systems.
 Microkernels are not a pipe dream.  They represent proven technology.
 
 The Mach guys wrote a paper called "UNIX as an application program."
 It was by Golub et al., in the Summer 1990 USENIX conference.  The Chorus
 people also have a technical report on microkernel performance, and I 
 coauthored another paper on the subject, which I mentioned yesterday
 (Dec. 1991 Computing Systems).  Check them out.
 
 Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)