27 Jul
2001
27 Jul
'01
4:45 a.m.
QNX is a very cool operating system, which
unfortunately (from my
perspective) runs only on the Intel platform. It's a true microkernel and
unlike Mach (which is about the only microkernel that is widely known) it
actually runs fast! And it has an incredible network filesystem/message
passing paradigm that blows Unix out of the water (imagine being able to run
a program on one computer, pipe the output to a program on a second computer
and send that to a printer on a third computer---all from the command line
ala Unix?).
Do some research, QNX runs on a *LOT* more than IA, and yes, it seems to be
pretty cool.
Zane
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