Nathan Langford <njl@sdf.lonestar.org> writes:

> In college, there was a lot of talk about microkernels being
> ideologically superior to traditional monolithic kernels, but
> everything I've read about real-world implementations seems to point
> to problems with message passing inefficiencies.

This reminds me of what Dave Presotto, one of the core people behind
the Plan 9 operating system (at Bell Labs) said, when he was asked why
Plan 9 wasn't microkernel based:

"Because you need a brain the size of a planet to design a microkernel
based system, and we only have egos that big."

-tih
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