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So on their best day ever, OSes dependent on GC were running on fewer than 50,000 machines worldwide, which is 5 orders of magnitude less than OSes not dependen
by hollerith 7y ago
So on their best day ever, OSes dependent on GC were running on fewer than 50,000 machines worldwide, which is 5 orders of magnitude less than OSes not dependent on GC.
What I just wrote is not a slam-dunk argument against OSes dependent on GC, but it is at least evidence against them -- even if decisions on which OS to use are usually political decisions.
- pjmlp 7y agoWell, if you want more examples, Aicas, PTC and Aonix selling real time Java deployments into bare metal, some of which used by US and French military. Or Astrobe selling Oberon boards for around 15 years now. Or we can just keeping using UNIX clones, no need to waste money on improving the status quo.