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why microkernels don’t work

You can almost just see it from this diagram of connected boxes.  I want to think of the whole system as a series of connected state machines.  The arrows show how information is moved around the system with the green … Continue reading

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Shocking advances in Operating Systems

And here I was complaining about the lack of progress in OS development “This will blow away any RTOS,” said Cauchy. “We speed up execution by doing things like vector interrupts, I/O memory mapping, and turning off timers.” By Gad!

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chrome OS

SAN FRANCISCO — In a direct challenge to Microsoft, Google announced late Tuesday that it is developing an operating system for PCs based on its Chrome Web browser. The move sharpens the already intense competition between Google and Microsoft, whose … Continue reading

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