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		jacquesm on March 23, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why was Tanenbaum wrong in the Tanenbaum-Torvalds ... QnX (now owned by RIM iirc) is one of the most mature micro kernel based os's out there.

sophacles on March 23, 2012 [–]

Thanks. I have heard of QNX but didnt realize it is a microkernel.

jacquesm on March 23, 2012 | [–]

I've used it for years on a very large message switch and in my experience it was rock solid, very easy to develop on and extremely responsive. For hard real time stuff from userland you'd still have to tweak things a bit but even that is possible.

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