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> since the late 1980s

> doubtless many other things we don't hear about

It’s entirely possible many of those embedded devices running QNX haven’t rebooted since the late 80’s.



You can take that to the bank. I wouldn't be surprised if there are machines that people have completely forgotten about that still happily churn away and if they ever do fail suddenly we'll notice. Let's hope it's not a power dam or some other critical bit of infra.


:-)

I would not be altogether surprised. This was one of the promises of microkernels in general and Minix 3 in particular...

https://lwn.net/Articles/217873/




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