[luau] ics412: operating systems

[Warren Togami]

On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 22:15, Jimen Ching wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Dustin Cross wrote:
> >This got me interested, so I started doing some reading.  BeOS is based on
> >a microkernel, written in C, everything else in the OS is done via servers
> >which were written in C++.
> 
> This makes more sense.  The Be people can call them servers.  But they're
> just applications that run on top of the microkernel.
> 

I think "servers" is the accepted terminology when it talks about core
the subsystems running on top of a microkernel.  At least that's how the
Hurd kernel project describes their microkernel design.