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Interview With Chris McKillop of QNX

Posted by timothy on from the three-little-letters dept.

Sheepish writes "OSNews features an interview with Chris McKillop, software engineer of QNX Software Systems. Chris, the most outspoken and 'visible' QNX employee in the QNX community, is discussing about performance differences between RT and monolithic kernels, the difficulties of pitching a new OS to the world, the Linux and Microsoft threat to QNX in the embedded space, QNX's Momentics desktop operating system and more."

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  1. Re:It's QNX Neutrino by DustMagnet · · Score: 1, Interesting
    I love QNX, but I've never understood why they wont write a swapper for it. Maybe they have in the last few years, I haven't kept up. They had an almost religious statement that QNX should never be a desktop system, so that's why it shouldn't swap.

    It would be so nice to see the real time priority system they use applied to a swap server process.

    "memory's cheap"

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