VanLUG Email Archive
Todd Meade (tmeade@bc.sympatico.ca)
Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:01:36 -0800
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-vanlug@gweep.bc.ca [mailto:owner-vanlug@gweep.bc.ca]On
> Behalf Of Vincent Janelle
> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 12:43 AM
> To: Todd Meade
> Cc: vanlug@gweep.bc.ca
> Subject: RE: resolution in X (Tiny Unix stories)
>
>
> Said microkernel is also completely written in assembler, and is 8kb
> actually :) (or at least, used to be). i386 assembler isn't quite as
> portable as C :)
Er, I think you are referring to QNX2. The demo is of Neutrino, the latest
OS from QNX, it runs on x86, PowerPC, and MIPS, and is mostly written in C
to my knowledge. And I said < 32K kernel, 8 < 32 ;-)
The demo is quite fun, you can surf the net from a bootable floppy. The
boot process is about as quick as starting a 15MB Netscape session :-)
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