Re:Signs of life from GNU Hurd
by wmf on Thursday July 28, 2011 @07:44PM
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OS X was built on Mach 2.x, which was pre-microkernel. And the modern XNU isn't microkernel-like at all.
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Actually I believe that's incorrect: stock Mach 2.x was considered a microkernel (though, like Mach 3.x, not always used as one in practice), and, versions of XNU since the first client release of Mac OS X are built on a modified Mach 3.0 kernel. But you're right that it's not used in a microkernel-like way.