| |||||||||||||
Interview with Andrew Tanenbaum (LinuxFr.org)Interview with Andrew Tanenbaum (LinuxFr.org)Posted Nov 18, 2011 8:45 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)In reply to: Interview with Andrew Tanenbaum (LinuxFr.org) by cmccabe Parent article: Interview with Andrew Tanenbaum (LinuxFr.org)
> Sure, you could put a 3 Ghz CPU in your microwave oven or vacuum cleaner
To do what? Un-compress and display a video recipe from Youtube? Please be serious. I'm talking "Mega"/cheap and you answer "Giga"; you are off-topic.
Do you have any idea what is the cost of 1 MIPS in the low range nowadays? Answer: totally negligible compared to the rest of the SoC. And not just in dollars but in terms of power and real estate just as well.
Backtracking: yes, the extra performance cost of a micro-kernel would not make any difference to your microwave oven.
(Log in to post comments)
Interview with Andrew Tanenbaum (LinuxFr.org) Posted Nov 19, 2011 3:30 UTC (Sat) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]
Do people really run microkernels on 8 or 16 bit microcontrollers?
Interview with Andrew Tanenbaum (LinuxFr.org) Posted Dec 1, 2011 10:42 UTC (Thu) by wookey (subscriber, #5501) [Link]
I don't know, but they are all rapidly in the process of getting 32-bit microcontrollers (which is pretty remarkable but seems to be the way the world is headed).
|
|||||||||||||