[Ti] A real world comparison

[Robert Ameeti]

At 9:51 PM -0500, 6/10/05, Chris Olson wrote:

>Well, this is beating a dead horse because nobody is going to listen 
>anyway.  Mac fans don't want to hear that their operating system is 
>flawed.
>
>Mac OS X's kernel is called XNU.  It's a marriage of Mach and BSD 
>kernel technologies, and is micro-kernel based.  Let's just say 
>there's some performance differences in kernel designs, and 
>monolithic kernels generally outperform micro-kernels pretty 
>dramatically on certain cpu architectures and applications.
>
>It took me a bit to find some information that's written in layman's 
>terms, but I did find a recent informative reference.  I would 
>invite anyone who's blinded by illusions of grandeur of OS X on x86 
>to read this web page because it explains it better than I ever 
>could:
>http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436&p=8

And I would like for anyone who wishes to read about Chris to check 
out <http://arstechnica.com/columns/mac/mac-20050608.ars>. When they 
mentioned the word orthoganality, they might as well have said Chris.
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Robert Ameeti

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