On Thu, 06 Dec 2001 18:38:05 +0100, "Thorsten Froehlich"
<tho### [at] trfde> wrote:

>In article <3c0fa705.22070694@news.povray.org> , ken### [at] uniplanit (Angelo 
>'kENpEX' Pesce) wrote:
>
>> Mabye the problem is that developing an os
>> kernel really is harder than developing a raytracer...
>
>Well, maybe developing a *monolithic* kernel is harder than developing a
>raytracer.  Of course, this thread is about POV-Ray and not about the worst
>kernel design winning - which is precisely what Linux is and what is
>bloating the kernel and causing all the problems.  Or, maybe that is a
>general pattern of success:  Something hacked or bought together with no
>commitment to a good design (DOS, Windows, Linux, the original PC, the x86
>instruction sets).
>
>Anyway, all this is off-topic...

:)

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