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Re: Mach Kernels



Brent Fulgham wrote:
> 
> > > Note that all other mach based OS are single server, while
> > > the Hurd is a multi server OS.
> > What exactly is multi-server?  What multiple *things* are being served
> > that on other os'es are being singly served?
> >
> For one thing, you could have multiple "OS" modules running on top
> of Mach (e.g., a Hurd server, a Linux server, a FreeDOS server).
> If you had multiple processors, this could even run simultaneously
> and pass messages back and forth.

So, with Mach you could create a "virtual machine" os?

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R Joseph Wright 

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