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@@ -27,25 +27,6 @@ license is included in the file COPYRIGHT. ? Generally Speaking -?? What is a Multiserver Microkernel? - -{NHW} A Microkernel has nothing to do with the size of the kernel. -Rather, it refers to the functionality that the kernel provides. It is -generally agreed that this is; a set of interfaces to allow processes to -communicate and a way to talk to the hardware. ``Software drivers,'' as -I like to call them, are then implemented in user space as servers. The -most obvious examples of these are the TCP/IP stack, the ext2 filesystem -and NFS. In the case of the Hurd, users now have access to -functionality that, in a monolithic kernel, they could never use, but -now, because the server runs in user space as the user that started it, -they may, for instance, mount an FTP filesystem in their home directory. - -For more information about the design of the Hurd, read the paper by -Thomas Bushnell, BSG: ``Towards a new strategy on OS design'', -available at: - - http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd-paper.html - ?? Grammatically speaking, what is the Hurd? {NHW} ``Hurd'', as an acronym, stands for ``Hird of Unix-Replacing |