[Coco] [Color Computer] The evolution of the Coco..

[Mannequin*]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 18:27:18 -0500
James Jones <jamesjones01 at mchsi.com> wrote:


> James Dessart wrote:

> > 

> > I'm pretty sure Minix has a monolithic kernel, like linux. I once had

> > the source for the mac version.

> 

> I would've sworn that the big Tanenbaum-Torvalds exchange was over

> monolithic kernel (which Linux is) versus microkernel, but now that I

> think about it I can't say for sure without looking whether Minix was a

> microkernel or not.

> 

> 	James


I'm pretty sure that Linux is monolithic, whereas Minix is micro, hence the mini
in Minix.

-M.