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Their mention of individually restarting components and "flexible inter-component messaging" really reminds me of the BEAM. Very exciting!

• protomyth 5y ago
  Reminds me of QNX. It was an amazing OS and restarting display drivers over the network was just one of its amazing abilities.
  • mwcampbell 5y ago
    No surprise, since Bryan Cantrill worked at QNX for a short time in the 90s.
  • hbbio 5y ago
    There should be a retweet on HN! QNX was one the most impressive OS I've seen, especially for its time. From the full OS in a 1.44Mb floppy disk to restartable drivers, real-time, etc. IPC with messages is built in and most things ran in userland. It ended in the hands of BlackBerry which is probably not the best home for it... Edit: I googled out of curiosity, and despite being closed source, it seems to still be marketed by BlackBerry and is supposedly a market leader in embedded OSes! More than 20 years later, well deserved. https://www.automotiveworld.com/news-releases/blackberry-qnx-software-now-embedded-in-more-than-175-million-vehicles/ https://www.automotiveworld.com/news-releases/blackberry-qnx...
    • Cyph0n 5y ago
      Most of Cisco's high-end service provider routers were running IOS-XR on top of QNX. They switched from QNX to a Linux kernel (specifically, Wind River) around 7 years back.
    • rubylark 5y ago
      QNX is still going strong even with Blackberry. I worked at a company recently that heavily relied on QNX for safety critical embedded OS projects. It's Qt and QML integration made rapid prototyping a snap. Unfortunately it requires pretty (relatively) hefty processors so I never personally got to use it.
    • detaro 5y ago
      Yes, it's still around. Sadly nowadays feels a bit neglected, and isn't quite keeping up. They have their markets that have little other choices and/or are very conservative in switching to something else, and will live of those for quite a while.
  • pjmlp 5y ago
    It is an amazing OS, https://blackberry.qnx.com/en https://blackberry.qnx.com/en
  • bcantrill 5y ago
    Not an accident. Cliff was influenced by QNX, Minix, L3 and L4 in his design (specifically, QNX proxies directly inspired Hubris notifications). And for me personally, QNX -- both the technology and the company -- played an outsized role in my own career, having worked there for two summers while an undergraduate.[0] (And even though it's been over 20 years since he passed, just recalling the great technology and people there makes me miss the late Dan Hildebrand[1] who had a singular influence on me, as well as so many others.) [0] http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2007/11/08/dtrace-on-qnx/ http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2007/11/08/dtrace-on-qnx/ [1] https://openqnx.com/node/298 https://openqnx.com/node/298