On 6/4/07, Vihan Pandey vihanpandey@gmail.com wrote:
I'd rather learn with Linux than with Minix.
AST has categorically stated that for a student to be able do a course in a semester at Virje you needed a kernel that would cover all concepts required to be learned by a student. Hence he wrote Minix, and its still one of the easiest things to start learning system concepts and interactio with.
to put it in one line - would you rather start teaching computer programming with BASIC or PL/1 ?
*yawn* try telling me something new :)
until i understand your rationale i don't have much of a choice :-)
In fact the very idea of microkernels opposes all of M$'s design concepts(if they ever had any).
IIRC, M$'s own kernel ( Win2k or Win2k3 ) resembles a microkernel. yes, they too are apparent aware of the positive aspects of the microkernel.
Oh, and where did you get info from, please do post a link.
From Galvin's book's appendix (7/e):
http://codex.cs.yale.edu/avi/os-book/os7/online-dir/Win2K.pdf See page 4.
Regards, Mohan S N