[tech] A project idea...

Adrian Chadd adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Thu Mar 28 22:47:47 WST 2002


On Thu, Mar 28, 2002, Grahame Bowland wrote:

[snip]

>   o spread an ill-designed, poorly-scaling and not-so-stable 
>     operating system. yay! [0]

> ones in the corridor are M68K based. They're not likely to have a 
> Memory Management Unit and that means you can't have seperate kernel /
> userland memory maps or enforse memory boundries between processes.

Uhm, which m68k? :)

> [0] I'll pay that this is flamebait. However, just looking at graphs 
>     at performance between 2.2 and 2.4 and quite a bit of experience 
>     doing Linux admin stuff makes me actually believe this. It doesn't 
>     make me believe that anything else is necessarily better though :)

Yay. Finally, I find someone who agrees with me!



Adrian, already a unix cynic



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