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From: peter@haywire.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: The Future of FreeBSD...
Date: 28 Jul 1995 05:23:32 +0800
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peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>In article <3v0rk7$ac4@blob.best.net>, Matt Dillon <dillon@best.com> wrote:
>>     From a theoretical perspective, nobody has really written a real
>>     microkernel yet.

>QNX?

>OK, it's an icky commercial product instead of a lovely academic research
>platform, but it's the closest to the ideal microkernel I've ever heard of.

Yes, but it has DOOM!  :-)

-Peter
(PS: from what I've seen, QNX looks really nice...  It doesn't appear
that they've let total unix compatability get in the way of a
lightweight, efficient OS)

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