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Re:We Need More Operating Systems by air on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @04:11PM (#4994000)
"The kernel for the Intel architecture is, I think, at this point mostly figured out. Microkernel had its shot and on Intel we have seen that it's too slow"

Does that judgment include QNX? I'm under the impression that it has quite a good performance for a microkernel.

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Re:We Need More Operating Systems by socceroos on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @06:21PM (#4994442)
It has great performance. And on top of that, it is as stable as a rock. Disclaimer: I love microkernels.
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Re:We Need More Operating Systems by chelmuth on Thursday January 03, 2013 @08:24AM (#5002196)
It is not only QNX, but also research of the last two decades shows that microkernels are not doomed to be slow. Examples are L4 and Nova (http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/papers_ps/steinberg_eurosys2010....).
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