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by beatle 5205 days ago
Linus doesn't have any experience with microkernels and BSD. Jordan Hubbard was a better hire in retrospect.
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Trying to hire both wasn't an option?
of course there's value in hiring Linus that's why Steve tried to hire him.
The "OS X uses a microkernel" myth needs to die. OS X's kernel, XNU, is based on a pre-3.0 version of Mach, which wasn't much of a microkernel to begin with, and neither Apple nor NeXT before it used Mach as a microkernel. You can't even realistically portray it as a hybrid.