Xah Lee's Unixism

[Dave Hansen]

On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 17:03:21 +0100, Rupert Pigott
<roo at try-removing-this.darkboong.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>John Thingstad wrote:
[...]
>
>uKernels are *NOT* a new idea at all. They weren't a new idea when
>NT was unleashed on the world. What people think of as "NT" is a big
>pile of shite that obscures the uKernel. Since the graphics stuff
>got put into ring 0 I think that you could legitimately claim that
>BSD Unix is more of a micro kernel than NT. :)
>
>> (Unix tradionally has a spagetti of intercalling function calls as a  
>> kernel.)
>
>Remember NeXTStep ?

QNX is another example of a microkernel OS, "unixy" without being
unix.  It's been around since, what, 1981?

AIUI, it used to be called Q-NIX, until a certain telephone company
complained.

Regards,

                               -=Dave
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