From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Early Clones / Rewrites for TUHS archives
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 07:59:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171218155948.GR11683@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.02.1712181056390.37448@frieza.hoshinet.org>
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 10:57:01AM -0500, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2017, Larry McVoy wrote:
>
> >QNX was an actual microkernel, the kernel part neatly fit in a 4K
> >instruction cache. I remember Dan telling me that it worked because
> >only a few people were allowed to touch the actual kernel, they wanted
> >to keep it small and fast.
> >
> >This was all pre-posix, it was Unix-like but porting stuff was much
> >harder than going from SunOS to IRIX.
> >
> >I think that it lives on in cars, someone told me that QNX is the basis
> >for a lot of the car stuff. Anyone know?
>
> Isn't it the OS of the Blackberry?
Yep, that too.
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Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-12 14:40 Clem Cole
2017-12-12 16:29 ` Random832
2017-12-12 16:41 ` Random832
2017-12-13 4:16 ` Jason Stevens
2017-12-13 21:22 ` Nemo
2017-12-14 0:26 ` Robert Swierczek
2017-12-18 10:10 ` Peter Jeremy
2017-12-18 15:46 ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-18 15:57 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-12-18 15:59 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2017-12-18 16:13 ` Steve Simon
2017-12-18 16:18 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-12-18 16:15 ` Henry Bent
2017-12-18 16:34 ` Andy Kosela
2017-12-18 16:39 ` Gregg Levine
2017-12-18 17:35 ` Steve Simon
2017-12-18 17:41 ` Toby Thain
2017-12-18 18:41 ` Brad Spencer
2017-12-18 16:37 ` Gregg Levine
2017-12-18 18:32 ` Bakul Shah
2017-12-18 16:53 ` Clem Cole
2017-12-18 17:08 ` Kurt H Maier
2017-12-12 15:16 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-12 16:01 ` Warner Losh
2017-12-13 2:15 ` Nigel Williams
2017-12-13 13:46 ` Clem Cole
2017-12-13 16:58 ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-13 19:03 ` Clem Cole
2017-12-16 4:50 ` Dave Horsfall
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