[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

Ahem A Rivet's Shot steveo at eircom.net
Thu Nov 16 13:02:03 EST 2023


On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 16:35:59 +0000
Richard Kettlewell <invalid at invalid.invalid> wrote:

> Oh, and the kernel is an example, of course. Process management, memory
> management, hardware drivers, multiple quite different kinds of IO and
> some other stuff, all in a single monolithic whole. Completely the
> opposite of the “do one thing well” principle. The reasons for this
> aren’t terrible but let’s not pretend that the Unix kernel is an
> examplar of the Unix philosophy l-)

	Excellent point - there's the Mach kernel of course which gets
closer.

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