Monday, August 11, 2008

Andrew Tanenbaum, Creator of MINIX on microkernels vs. monolithic kernels

Andrew Tanenbaum: «...A microkernel is much better engineered and is more modular and easier to understand. Monolithic kernels are still too big and unreliable. My metric is the TV set. The system should run for 10 years with a total of zero failures for 99.9% of the users...»

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