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[fmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Fred A. Miller)]

jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> On 25-Jul-98 Fred A. Miller wrote:
> 
> >> There's also freedows, or any of the message-passing OS variants that are a
> >> little more revolutionary...
> >
> > If you want "revolutionary," take a GOOD gander at QNX!!  'Fastest
> > micro-kernel, message passing, distributed processing OS for the Intel
> > platform!  You can imagine what task switches are for a good Pentium II,
> > considering that the old version of QNX would task switch on a 20Mhz P-5
> > at OVER 20,000 a sec!
> 
> I don't know if I really want revolutionary... yet.  I'll wait until it becomes
> a bit more, uh, mainstream.  I would like to see a virtual machine (Bochs??)
> spread out over a distributed processing OS.  It would be a single super
> machine and would benefit from out of the box apps on phenomenal hardware!

QNX won't become mainstream, as the company has no interest in expanding
outside of it's niche market.  It's in VERY wide use anywhere real-time
processing is crucial.

Fred


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Fred A. Miller, Systems Administrator
Cornell Univ. Press Services
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