Re: Philosophical Rant [was Re: Writing Drivers in Ja va]

At 14.47 30/04/2002, you wrote:

> QNX is microkernel and well-performing, though it is hardly a
> desktop or server OS.
Yes that is true, although I suspect that QNX is not attempting to put
device drivers into protected address spaces, right?

It does, IIRC, and it can do some other pretty cool stuff too: it should be
able, for example, to start and stop any driver at any time, and even
replace the running kernel without rebooting