From: Robert Brockway <robert@timetraveller.org>
To: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] QNX
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 21:03:43 +1000 (AEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2102092050010.13164@mira.opentrend.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8092.1612856554@hop.toad.com>
On Mon, 8 Feb 2021, John Gilmore wrote:
> Wait, are we talking about the same operating system called QNX?
Hi John. I found your comment really interesting. I have less experience
with QNX than you do but I do have a long-standing interest in OS design
and found it interesting from that perspective.
QNX is a high performance real-time OS that has run critical
infrastructure for decades. Notably it's been used to run nuclear power
stations in many countries.
Usage may have declined in recent years but in the vintage you're
discussing (90s) QNX would have been widely used in critical
infrastructure. I contracted to an electricity provider about 8 or 9
years ago and QNX was definitely still there.
Looks like BlackBerry now own QNX and the OS is still out there keeping
critical stuff running.
For the record I am aware that microkernels are not intrinsically slow and
I think they can offer significant advantages. MINIX 3 is an interesing
design, pity about the name.
Cheers,
Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-09 11:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-08 18:11 [TUHS] Macs and future unix derivatives Will Senn
2021-02-08 18:21 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-08 18:32 ` Justin Coffey
2021-02-08 18:39 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-09 1:59 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-12 13:48 ` Angel M Alganza
2021-02-08 18:42 ` Henry Bent
2021-02-09 6:55 ` John Gilmore
2021-02-09 7:05 ` Michael Huff
2021-02-16 22:55 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-02-09 7:17 ` Will Senn
2021-02-09 19:02 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-10 1:34 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-09 22:59 ` Wesley Parish
2021-02-08 18:43 ` Dan Stromberg
2021-02-12 13:39 ` Angel M Alganza
2021-02-08 18:45 ` Thomas Paulsen
2021-02-25 22:45 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-08 20:07 ` Al Kossow
2021-02-09 5:10 ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-02-09 7:42 ` [TUHS] QNX John Gilmore
2021-02-09 11:03 ` Robert Brockway [this message]
2021-02-09 18:24 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-02-09 20:18 ` Jose R Valverde via TUHS
2021-02-09 14:05 ` Larry McVoy
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