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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 20:48:47 -0700
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: TW Burger <twburger@home.com>
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Subject: Re: The BSD Kernel
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* TW Burger <twburger@home.com> [000826 19:56] wrote:
> Is the BSD kernel a micro kernel, acting as a message passing administrator,
> or is it a monolithic kernel with the file, memory and network systems built
> into one big core?

Monolithic but with a couple of message passing slave processes that
do work.

-Alfred


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