Re:Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor...
by ahartmetz on Thursday July 19, 2018 @03:15PM
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I'd like to know how Zircon compares to L4 (implementations).
When I asked Tanenbaum at FOSDEM why he didn't pick L4 for Minix 3, he just got annoyed and seemed to think I was asking why he didn't just use the L4 OS (which doesn't exist) instead of creating Minix 3 - or something. In any case I didn't get a good answer. He could have created his own implementation if he wanted, L4 is just a specification with a few existing high quality implementations that prove the concept...
When I asked Tanenbaum at FOSDEM why he didn't pick L4 for Minix 3, he just got annoyed and seemed to think I was asking why he didn't just use the L4 OS (which doesn't exist) instead of creating Minix 3 - or something. In any case I didn't get a good answer. He could have created his own implementation if he wanted, L4 is just a specification with a few existing high quality implementations that prove the concept...