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From: wilko@apd.dec.com (Wilko Bulte)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Is BSD a Microkernel OS?
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Date: 19 Oct 94 12:04:21 GMT
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mselby@netcom.com (Michael Selby) writes:


>	Is BSD a microkernel operating system? I have often heard that 
>the microkernel OS is head and shoulders above monolithic.

Standard BSD is not microkernel. Several vendors are working on 
microkernel incarnations of BSD derived systems.

Wilko

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