Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> > Your definition is the Tanenbaum one, right?
>
>   I tried to google material about that, but I couldn't find anything
> relevant. Do you know of any page about that subject? I would be interested
> (if for nothing else, to be able to answer your question).

Oh, please!  Andrew Tanenbaum!  You sure know the man!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum

Author of MINIX, many influential books on OS design:

http://www.prenhall.com/tanenbaum/

(I've read at least 2)

and a memorable flamewar with Linus Torvalds in the beginning of Linux over bad
design choices:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.minix/browse_thread/thread/c25870d7a41696d2/f447530d082cd95d?tvc=2

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