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Re:Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to lon... by DaiPlusPlus on Friday March 26, 2021 @11:12PM (#26599577)
Windows NT is not a microkernel - Windows CE was, however.

NT has been shifting towards running more driver-code in user-space, as has macOS as well, especially with UMDF (especially for USB devices) and for graphics drivers, which are historically the #1 cause of BSODs - however just because the kernel passes control to user-space for the bulk of the driver's number-crunching doesn't mean that architecturally the kernel is still responsible for huge swathes of the computer's functionality. With a true micro-kernel there isn't any third-party code in the kernel space - not even a stub.

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Re:Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to lon... by DaiPlusPlus on Saturday March 27, 2021 @02:18AM (#26600365)
> however just because the kernel passes control to user-space for the bulk of the driver's number-crunching doesn't mean that architecturally the kernel is still responsible for huge swathes of the computer's functionality

I typo'd that - it should be

> however just because the kernel passes control to user-space for the bulk of the driver's number-crunching doesn't mean that architecturally the kernel isn't still responsible for huge swathes of the computer's functionality

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