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 Well, this has been a fun discussion. I am absolutely convinced by
 Prof. Tannenbaum that a micro-kernel _is_ the way to go, but the more
 I look at the Minix source, the less I believe that it is a
 micro-kernel.  I would probably not bother porting Linux to the
 M68000, but I want more services than Minix can offer.
 
 What about a micro-kernel which is message/syscall compatible with
 MACH? It doesn't actually have to do everything that MACH does, like
 virtual memory paging -- it just has to _look_ like MACH from the
 outside, to fool programs like the future Gnu Unix-emulator, BSD, etc.
 This would extend the useful lives of our M68000- or 80286-based
 machines for a little longer. In the meantime, I will probably stay
 with Minix for my ST rather than switching back to MiNT -- after all,
 Minix at least looks like Unix, while MiNT looks like TOS trying to
 look like Unix (it has to, to be TOS compatible).
 
 
 David
 
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 David Megginson                  meggin@epas.utoronto.ca
 Centre for Medieval Studies      david@doe.utoronto.ca
 University of Toronto            39 Queen's Park Cr. E.
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