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I was just telling my 10 year old about QNX last night, and how it was an amazing feat to have a whole graphical desktop with apps all fit on a 1.44mb floppy disc. Since he's missing so much of the context of "the ancient times", he didn't exactly share my enthusiasm, but at least he humored me a bit for my trip down memory lane.

QNX keeps going on high integrity computing, a domain where hypervisors and microkernels actually matter.

https://qnx.software

https://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/8.0/index.html

That warms my heart

I understand that part of the latest efforts in Linux have been to use NNs to analyze code in order to speed up subsystems.

I’ve found LLMs have been incredible in speeding up code. Hopefully they’ll end the past decades of software performance expanding into the hardware it’s give