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From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada OS Kernel features
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 08:45:41 +0200
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Brian Catlin wrote
>Well, I wouldn't hold Mach up as the end-all or be-all of operating system
>kernels; its performance is nothing to brag about.  It certainly has many
>interesting concepts, but its overhead is too high for my taste (I haven't
>looked at it in several years, so it may have been cleaned up; I'll have to
go
>check it out again).

As I recall Mach is supposed to represent a snapshot of microkernel
technology at a relative early stage. I believe that at least IBM has
advanced the state of the art considerably since mach was released.

Greetings,