From fe223de474375f8a306ad33d3d5e755de1cb5c6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:43:52 +0200 Subject: microkernel/faq/multiserver_microkernel: Split out of faq.en.in. --- faq.en.in | 19 ------------------- 1 file changed, 19 deletions(-) (limited to 'faq.en.in') diff --git a/faq.en.in b/faq.en.in index 16b22529..a9c1e436 100644 --- a/faq.en.in +++ b/faq.en.in @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.3