[CS-FSLUG] Mac and Vista

[Fred A. Miller]

Timothy Butler wrote:
> 
> 
>> DON'T hold your breath. M$ has a very difficult time getting anything
>> done right. To make matters worse, it APPEARS that Win7 will be  
>> modular,
>> not monolithic. The ONLY modern modular OS that is stable, secure,
>> INCREDIBLY FAST (like real time), and yet has a small footprint is  
>> QNX.
> 
> 	QNX is pretty great. However, you forgot Mac OS X. It's based on a  
> microkernel design... Not quite up to QNX performance, but it works  
> well enough without a monolithic kernel (Linus Torvalds's critiques  
> aside).

OSX isn't a modular OS. It's roots are in BSD. Microkernel, yes, 
modular, no. ;)

-- 
Fred  "Molon Labe"

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