It's not a redefinition when you add "-like" at the end. If I say a particular airplane flies like a rock, nobody needs to clarify that airplanes are not rocks.
But please refer back to the original comment. rektide said it was "un-monolithic", which it is. A virtual machine is less monolithic than baked-in code.
Softirq is the one who brought up microkernels specifically. Softirq is the one that repeatedly steered the conversation back to monokernel versus microkernel.
If you put words in someone's mouth repeatedly until they start using them, you lose the right to complain that they're using the wrong words!
"Why do you want to use the term microkernel?" is the exact opposite of what happened.
But please refer back to the original comment. rektide said it was "un-monolithic", which it is. A virtual machine is less monolithic than baked-in code.
Softirq is the one who brought up microkernels specifically. Softirq is the one that repeatedly steered the conversation back to monokernel versus microkernel.
If you put words in someone's mouth repeatedly until they start using them, you lose the right to complain that they're using the wrong words!
"Why do you want to use the term microkernel?" is the exact opposite of what happened.