News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time (2014). Parent comment

Re:Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time (2014) by bionsystem on Monday November 26, 2018 @06:03AM (#18532469)
Plot twist : Tanenbaum's microkernel design that he argues for vs Linus actually runs on every Intel cpu (as minix 3), and thus is technically the most used operating system in the world.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time (2014) by AnimalMuppet on Monday November 26, 2018 @12:06PM (#18534787)
Um, what are you talking about here? In what sense does Minix 3 run on every Intel CPU?

And, plot twist: ARM CPUs may outnumber Intel CPUs...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time (2014) by bionsystem on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @11:03AM (#18543437)
Yep, I forgot about ARM. I was referring to https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/ ; Minix is certainly not just a toy, it is very widely used.
[ Parent | on HN ]