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authorThomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>2013-09-26 15:18:15 +0200
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A *microkernel* is one kind of a [[kernel]] implementation.
[[Liedtke]] explains in [On Microkernel Construction](http://l4ka.org/publications/paper.php?docid=642)
+(or from [TU Dresden](http://www.tud-os.org/papers_ps/jochen/Mikern.ps),
+or from [ACM](http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=224075))
that a microkernel attempts to minimize the mandatory part of the operating
system by providing the minimal number of [[mechanism]]s that
maximize the flexibility of implementation (by imposing minimal