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moron4hiretoday at 4:50 PM1 replyview on HN

Android still runs on a monolithic kernel written in a memory-unsafe language. I'm finding it suprisingly difficult to find information on Meadow, other than it runs .NET DLLs as user-space applications, but nothing about the structure of the kernel.

Longhorn was going to be more than that. Microsoft did have Singularity/Midori projects, started around the middle of Longhorn/Vista, and continued much longer after Vista released to build out the managed microkernel concept. It's been about a decade since they've put any work into it, though.


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pjmlptoday at 5:29 PM

Microsoft wasn't even able to deliver that, which was my whole point.

Joe Duffy mentions on a talk, that even with Midori running production workloads, Windows team could not be changed their mind.

Meadow uses a C++ based microkernel, the whole userspace is based on .NET, by the way.