Kernel Architecture

History and Backgroun

Pre history (tools for calculation, harnessing electric logic, processing one program):

(2300BC, 600BC, 500BC, 200BC) Abacus -> Mesopotamian, Persian, Greek, Chinese
(1642) Pascal's calulator
(1786,1823) Difference Machine & Difference Engine -> J.H. Muller (engineer in Hessian army), Charles Babage
(1835) Analytical Engine -> Charles Babage & Ada Lovelace (gears, cogs, wheels)
(1907) Vacuum tube
(1940) Plugboards (vacuum tubes replacing mechanical relays)
(1947) Transistor
(1958) Integrated circuit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q07PhW5sCEk#t=6m

(batch processing -> multiprogramming -> time sharing)

(1957) Atlas Supervisor & BESYS (Bell Operating System)
(1961) Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS)
(1964) Multics
(1969) UNIX -> (1978) *BSD -> (1987) Mach -> (2000) Darwin
(1985) Plan 9
(1987) Minix
(1991) Linux
(1996) Inferno

Atlas Supervisor

OS/360

CTSS

Multics

UNIX

Minix

Monolithic Kernel

Microkernel

Nanokernel / Picokernel

Exokernel

Unikernel

Rump kernel

References