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+[[meta title="What is a Multiserver Microkernel?"]]
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+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).