Re: ADA os talk

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Thanks. Found a link for the book at:

http://cw.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/tanenbaum/

Considering multiple processors depends on what the ultimate objective is.
If your Kernel is aimed at some limited embedded machines, maybe one is good
enough. If your Kernel aims to be a workstation/general-purpose full-blown
OS when it grows up, multiple processors are going to be there & you want to
leave the door open for that. Likewise for multiple computers wired together
with shared resources - you're going to have networked computers and you'll
want to leave the door open for that.

The early design decisions have to be lived with for a very long time, so
they should be taken carefully. Don't design in limitations that cripple you
down the road. (Think of MS-DOS limitations and how long Microsoft was
hamstrung in what they could do to remain backward compatible.)

MDC
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"chris.danx" <chris.danx@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> Operating Systems: Design and Implementation by Tanenbaum and Woodhull
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> It describes the design of Minix, though I couldn't say if it's got any
> multi-processor capability.  Probably not a good idea though.
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