Comment by alfiedotwtf
3 days ago
What the hell happened to BeBox and QNX?! They were the pinnacle of blitz. I’ve got a beefy machine to run large LLM models, but recently installing a new Debian, Gnome struggles after booting because of their packaging manager running 100% for a few minutes, following by random lag. Like wtf we had speed 26 years ago :(
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