[TUHS] Microkernels (was: OS for IBM PC (was: Algol68 vs. C at Bell Labs))

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at lemis.com
Thu Jul 7 12:20:20 AEST 2016


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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