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authorThomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org>2008-07-14 16:43:52 +0200
committerThomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org>2008-07-14 17:18:52 +0200
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microkernel/faq/multiserver_microkernel: Split out of faq.en.in.
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? 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
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+[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008 Free Software
+Foundation, Inc."]]
+
+[[meta license="""[[toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled
+[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[meta title="What is a Multiserver Microkernel?"]]
+
+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 we 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](http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd-paper.html).