Re: Dreaming About Redesigning SQL
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:01:46 GMT
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"Anthony W. Youngman" <thewolery_at_nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:NZJktvDi7yj$EwcG_at_thewolery.demon.co.uk...
> Just like the academics were
> brainwashed into thinking that microkernels were the be-all and end-all
> - until Linus showed them by practical example that they were all idiots
"The academics" (presumably you mean Tannenbaum et al) never claimed that monolithic kernels could not obtain market acceptance; they never said anything about market acceptance. Instead, they had identified a number of weaknesses of monolithic kernels and pointed out that a microkernel architecture didn't suffer from these problems. Certainly the monolithic kernel is easier to implement.
Linus set out to build a unix kernel workalike, and he chose the easiest path, copying architecture from the 1970s, along with all the weaknesses that those idiot academics had identified years earlier. Since then, his monolithic kernel has gotten a lot of marketshare, due to a number of different reasons, none of them being architectural superiority.
Marshall Received on Thu Oct 23 2003 - 10:01:46 CEST