>>>>> "Ted" == Ted Mittelstaedt <[email protected]> writes:
Ted> Yeah this is just an old defunct religious war bullcrap between
Ted> Microkernel vs Monolithic kernel, [...]
I watched (or at least listened to) the whole 1.5 hour video and the
microkernel vs monolithic topic was one question out of a couple dozen,
and Linus gave a persuasive answer: that whatever simplicity you think
you are getting with a microkernel gets eaten by the complexity of the
interconnection communication problems. It was a tiny part of the video,
so to boil the whole thing down to "just" seems quite wrong.
Ted> [...] For all Linus' claims, the Linux kernel today is far, far
Ted> fatter and has more crap in it than was ever envisioned, [...]
One of his points, which he makes several times, is that there wasn't
really *ever* an "envisioned". He refers to an evolutionary nature of
development, disdain for software design as a preparatory step, and his
"broken crystal ball" when it comes to predicting the future.
Somehow, I want to work in that he mentioned using microemacs[1], which
I once also used, I think in the late 1980s. At some point, when I was
still working in MS-DOS land (pre-1993), I got "Brief". I still have the
retail box for Brief in my attic. When Linux came along, I switched to
The One True Editor.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroEMACS
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