Argument Quote by Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Microkernels are not a pipe dream. They represent proven technology.

— Andrew S. Tanenbaum

If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently.

— Linus Torvalds

Personally, I'm not interested in making device drivers look like user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just stupid.

— Linus Torvalds

Microprocessors were instantly attractive to us because you could build something for a fraction of the cost of conventional electronics. That's essentially what we…

— Paul Allen

One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild…

— Gabe Newell

There are a lot of new things going on in the microprocessor world, including increased focus on power and efficiency.

— Michael Dell

What we're really trying to do is have heterogeneous systems really become the foundation of our computing going forward. And that's the idea that…

— Lisa Su

The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways. There's…

— Alan Kay

But in all honesty, I would suggest that people who want a modern "free" OS look around for a microkernel-based, portable OS, like maybe…

— Andrew S. Tanenbaum

There is a mentality that if you're a long time AMDer, that we're x86: we know what we're doing, and it's just about building…

— Lisa Su

Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the…

— Dee Hock

I think we're just going to have to live with the microcosm in the electronic world of the kind of things that we might…

— Robert E. Kahn