Discussion
Windows operating system follows ............... and Linux operating system follows ............. type of kernel architecture.
Select most appropriate option from the following :
Answer: B
Windows uses a Hybrid kernel and Linux a Monolithic kernel.
The Windows NT kernel combines microkernel ideas (a small executive, subsystems and message passing) with many services running in kernel mode for speed, so it is classed as hybrid. Linux runs the whole kernel, including drivers, file systems and networking, in a single kernel address space, which is the monolithic design, extended with loadable modules.
Linux is not a microkernel (Linus Torvalds famously debated that with Andrew Tanenbaum), so options pairing it with 'Micro' are wrong, and Windows is not purely monolithic.
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