14 Dec
2022
14 Dec
'22
3:46 p.m.
Larry McVoy [14/12/2022 02.05]:
To me, it's not that surprising that the rest of
the world didn't copy
QNX because the rest of the world was either a mono-kernel or it was
Mach. Don't get me started on Mach, it has defenders but I absolutely
hate it. Mach is more of a distributed research OS that advertised
itself as a microkernel. There is_nothing_ micro about Mach. It's
a big bloated mess.
There was a rumour back in the early 90s that a new version of AmigaOS
would be based on QNX. This was just before Commodore went bust, so
nothing came out of it. A shame, I rather liked the Amiga and its
so-called Workbench.
--
Hilsen Harald