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Konrad Kokoszkiewicz wrote:

> [1] there was an API in a version of XaAES which used MiNT pipes to 
> transfer messages between the app and the XaAES core, or something like 
> that.
> 

Yes, that was XaAES upto and including 0.963
People complained that it was slow. And it was.
But it was nice and I liked it.

Apart from the very small trap handlers XaAES ran completely
in user mode.

Minix is designed exactly that way.
The message passing in Minix is much faster because
it is specially designed for that purpose.

-- 
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Henk Robbers. http://members.chello.nl/h.robbers
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