Explain the difference between a MONOLITHIC KERNAL and a
MICROKERNAL?

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Explain the difference between a MONOLITHIC KERNAL and a MICROKERNAL?..

Answer / sruthi

monolithic kernel does not allow new servers to be added dynamically and so changes cannot be done where as in micro kernel new servers can be added dynamically. micro kernel is embedded between a middleware and operating system.

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Explain the difference between a MONOLITHIC KERNAL and a MICROKERNAL?..

Answer / reshma begam pattan

A monolithic kernel is a kernel architecture where the entire
operating system is working in the kernel space and alone as
supervisor mode.

Micro kernels run most of the operating system services in
user space as servers

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