william E Davidsen (davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM) wrote:

:   That was mid 60's and it's interesting that the idea of monolithic
: kernel is once again drifting out of vogue. Unfortunately I don't think

That's because we're seeing a new generation of hackers.  Every generation
refuses to learn from those who came before; they have to reinvent the
square wheel to convince themselves it won't roll.  I see this day after
day - the UNIX gurus turn their noses up at the PC jocks, and everyone turns
their noses up at the mainframe guys.  Idiocy. :(

:   Don't take this as a rejection of multi-server by me, I'm unconvinced
: rather than convinced against. Sort of a software agnostic.

I hate to say it, but I remember when we were running 16 users, multiuser,
in 64K of RAM.  The time was mid 70's, the company was Datapoint.

I like the way that Linux does things, like you said, RISC-like.  But I
also think there are still lots of places that non-RISC architecture is
a big win.  Oh, well.
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