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From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [TUHS] Microkernels (was: OS for IBM PC (was: Algol68 vs. C at Bell Labs))
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 12:20:20 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160707022020.GB78278@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160704181330.GM13274@mcvoy.com>

On Monday,  4 July 2016 at 11:13:30 -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
>
> QNX, in my opinion, is the only really interesting and commercially
> proven microkernel.

Tandem's Guardian was a microkernel, and a very successful one at
that.  At one point (mid-1980s) Guardian systems were running the
majority of the world's ATMs.

Greg
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-07-07  2:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-04 16:54 [TUHS] OS for IBM PC (was: Algol68 vs. C at Bell Labs) Norman Wilson
2016-07-04 18:13 ` Larry McVoy
2016-07-04 21:12   ` Clement T. Cole
2016-07-07  2:20   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2016-07-07 10:51     ` [TUHS] Microkernels (was: OS for IBM PC (was: Algol68 vs. C at Bell Labs)) John Cowan
2016-07-07 23:36       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey

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