[Oberon] Pepino LX9, USB, and other hardware running OBERON

[Jörg Straube]

Lars

Oberon OS is kind of both. It's monolithic in the sense that everything runs in the same address space.
It's kind of micro kernel as you dont have to recompile everything if you want to add something to the kernel, as Oberon OS is split up in  modles.
So you could perhaps call Oberon OS as kind of "modular monolithic" :-)

Br Jörg

> Am 20.02.2016 um 08:22 schrieb Lars <noreply at z505.com>:
> 
> 
>> It is only the mass-market applications that will bring Oberon to the
>> forefront - and the idea of a complete lightweight OS that resides in
>> under 1Mbyte - makes it attractive for IoT devices that really do not need
>> to carry around 20 million lines of source-code baggage.
> 
> 
> What is Oberon's opinion on the micro kernel vs monolithic kernel debate
> going on in minix for decades now.  Does oberon prefer simple monolithic
> system or modular kernel. The modular micro kernel requires more code
> bloat to make things happen, is the Torvalds opinion, and it becomes too
> much work always trying to write layers of extra code so that the modules
> can interact safely with the kernel, rather than just hardcodign
> everything in one place in the monolithic kernel where everything is
> shoved.
> 
> Is oberon a micro kernel, monolithic, or neither as you can't describe it
> that way?  It seems like oberon modules themselves, which can be loaded,
> are kind of pointing toward more modular micro design - but that's where I
> have to admit I'm ignorant as I don't know about userspace kernelspace in
> the oberon, if it even has what you call a kernel anyway. Micro kernals
> according to Andrew T. of minix are safer, and superior to linux
> monolithic. What's oberon's view on this?  Can't ask wirth because he
> never involves himselves in such discussions via one way communication:
> write a book, hope people except it, then leave to outer space.
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