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Comment by lanstin

3 hours ago

Plan9 or HURD? Mach anyone?

The boat long ago sailed on Mach/Hurd; there are probably better options in microkernel-land. There's Zircon, but Google laid off a bunch of the Fuchsia folks and has been pretty quite lately. QNX is still a thing, but closed source yadda yadda. Best hope there is probably the L4 family (seL4, et. al).

I would not be surprised at all if we end up with radically different OS architectures than the 1970's model we have today.

  • I would. Things tend to congregate into an ossified mess over time. Case in point: our current model is from the 1970s.

    • But it works, and it is unclear if alternative architectures are viable in practice.