12 Dec
2022
12 Dec
'22
9:02 p.m.
On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 10:26:37PM -0700, Andrew Warkentin wrote:
On 12/11/22, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
It influenced me.
Lots of things that were the right answer failed to achieve success.
Beta vs VHS. Plan 9.
Does that mean they were worthless? I don't think so.
If you think of microkernels and think Mach is it, nope, look at QNX.
And yet, for some reason, QNX has had almost no influence on anything
else besides a few hobby OSes (only one of which ever reached a
reasonably mature state) as far as I can tell. I really don't get why
that is. As far as I know, I'm the only one who's working on a
QNX-like OS that's not QNX itself.