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From: kenn@er6.rutgers.edu (Ken Nakata)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: The Future of FreeBSD...
Date: 21 Jul 1995 07:53:24 -0400
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Matthew.White@cs.cmu.edu writes:
>Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc: 20-Jul-95 Re: The
>Future of FreeBSD... Jordan K. Hubbard@violet (5085)
>> In fact, many members of the project would LEAVE were we to suddenly
>> jump on the Mach bandwagon since universal agreement
>> on microkernel technology is hardly here, and there are in fact a number
>> of detractors alive and well in the UNIX camp.
>To my mind, the microkernel is the way of the future. With increasingly
>diverse processor architectures available, this is one technology that
>will keep things manageable. With microkernels, a development effort
>can proceed with far fewer individuals because the maintainance cost of
>additional platforms is minimal.
Take a look at NetBSD source tree. What you're saying isn't intrinsic
to microkernel architecture.
>Instead of large numbers of mediocre programmers producing huge
>amounts of mediocre code (as many firms seem to do), we have a small
>number of excellent programmers producing a smaller, but
>functionally equivelant, amount of excellent code.
How do you guarantee the quality of programmers? What if you end
up with small number of mediocre programmers? It has nothing to do
with microkernel architecture.
/kenn
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