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Comment by pjmlp

7 years ago

Maybe something like Android, OS X/iOS, ChromeOS, UWP, Fuchsia, Unikernels, Language runtimes on Hypervisors.

And since I sense the question coming, Android, OS X/iOS, ChromeOS might use an UNIXy kernel, but its exposure surface to applications is so small, that it can be easily exchange for something else, it is just a matter of cost.

Which brings us to the next point, given the commodity of free UNIX-like OSes, maybe only an hardware reboot like Quantum computers will actually do it.

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saagarjha  7 years ago

> And since I sense the question coming, Android, OS X/iOS, ChromeOS might use an UNIXy kernel, but its exposure surface to applications is so small, that it can be easily exchange for something else, it is just a matter of cost.

Android, macOS, and iOS expose almost the full set of POSIX to the programmer. Now, you may argue that it goes mostly unused, but it is there, and there are people using it.