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Amiga OS. It was and probably still is the only microkernel OS commercially available to the general public.
by Dracophoenix 4y ago
Amiga OS. It was and probably still is the only microkernel OS commercially available to the general public.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago> It was and probably still is the only microkernel OS commercially available to the general public. QNX was
- Dracophoenix 4y agoMy understanding was that QNX wasn't a general purpose OS even though it could run on 90's x86 cards and that it was mainly marketed to engineers, governments, and universities.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoPretty sure it's as general purpose as anything else: https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/qnx621 https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/qnx621 It might be that it was mostly used in embedded stuff, but that's true of Linux too, not an inherent limit.
- lproven 4y agoQNX gained a GUI and multimedia support mainly because at one point it was going to be the basis of the next-generation AmigaOS, of course. https://www.theregister.com/1998/11/14/amiga_2_to_use_qnx/ https://www.theregister.com/1998/11/14/amiga_2_to_use_qnx/ But it didn't work out: https://www.trollaxor.com/2005/06/how-qnx-failed-amiga.html https://www.trollaxor.com/2005/06/how-qnx-failed-amiga.html