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I’ve seen this argument play out many times. I believe the next line is: “QNX proved that micro kernels can be fast given clever message passing syscall design.
by mastax 2y ago
I’ve seen this argument play out many times. I believe the next line is: “QNX proved that micro kernels can be fast given clever message passing syscall design.”
“I remember running the QNX demo disc: an entire graphical operating system on a single 1.44MB floppy! Whatever happened to them?”
“They got bought by blackberry, which ended as you’d expect. QNX had a lot of success in automotive though.”
“Nowadays Linux and Android are dominant in new cars, though, proving once and for all that worse is better.”
exeunt. End Scene
- ryao 2y agoNice use of Latin. mihi placet.
- nine_k 2y agoAlso an illustration how an open-source solution, even if technically inferior, would displace a closed-source solution, even if technically superior, unless there is a huge moat. And huge moats usually exist only in relatively narrow niches.
- vacuity 2y agoIt turns out that success is composed of 90% luck, 10% marketing, and 5% talent/technical advantage. A rhetorical question: how do you entice people to turn a movement into a revolution when it isn't likely the movement will succeed?
- necovek 2y agoAnother rhetorical question: out of luck/marketing/technical advantage, which one is contributing the most to the extra 5% out of 105% of all the components success can be attributed to?