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by amluto 3293 days ago
As an example, there are a bunch of things that work well on microkernels on non-x86 architectures that involve splitting drivers across processes.

On Windows, a lot of the windowing system is in the kernel in win32k.sys. Microsoft didn't do this for fun -- they did it because the old way (NT3.5?) was too slow.