[TUHS] Clever code (was Re: Re: Stdin Redirect in Cu History/Alternatives?

Harald Arnesen skogtun at gmail.com
Wed Dec 14 19:46:01 AEST 2022


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


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