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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!pipex-sa.net!hole.news.pipex.net!pipex!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!lade.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.be.innet.net!INbe.net!news.nl.innet.net!INnl.net!news1.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.ne t!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!cucumber.demon.co.uk!usenet From: andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: Benchmarking different Unix Operating Systems Date: 26 Sep 1996 07:00:42 GMT Organization: home Lines: 21 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <52d9mq$13a@cucumber.demon.co.uk> References: <aak2.842008017@isis.msstate.edu> <52csjt$lui@panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cucumber X-NNTP-Posting-Host: cucumber.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:28044 comp.os.linux.misc:131767 comp.unix.solaris:83829 In article <52csjt$lui@panix.com>, bryan@panix.com (Bryan Althaus) writes: >A device driver bug can crash any OS so I wouldn't blame that on Yes. I spent a number of years working with a proprietry real-time operating system where all device drivers ran in user space, with all the normal user space protection, and the ability to use debuggers, reload if crash, etc, without the whole OS keeling over. It amases me that none of the main-stream OS's have looked into this. Better inter-process communication would be required, but that would probably be a bonus for many other reasons. Sorry, off-topic I know, but I liked the OS where "A device driver bug can crash any OS" didn't apply. :-) -- Andrew Gabriel Home: Andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk Consultant Software Engineer Work: Andrew.Gabriel@net-tel.co.uk