OT: 'conduct unbecoming of a hacker'

Joakim via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Feb 10 20:14:54 PST 2016


On Wednesday, 10 February 2016 at 23:55:17 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> Also because context switching got from a handful of cycle at 
> the time to about 1000 cycles on modern CPU, making the idea of 
> microkernel somewhat less attractive.
>
> But saying Stallman released nothing is unfair. If we can 
> consider hurd a failure, he was also behind emacs, early gcc 
> and other things.

Nobody said "nothing," I specifically noted his "GNU tools" and 
that a microkernel was ambitious.  Just remarking that his kernel 
didn't get done, for a variety of reasons.


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