SIMPL open source project... / Send/Receive/Reply message passing

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 01:20:48AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> QNX Software Systems was founded in 1980.  Microsoft was founded in
> 1975.
> 
> The S/R/R of QNX was copied from a series of University of Waterloo
> experimental operating systems.  The QNX founders were students at
> Waterloo.

The QNX design mirrors the real time course at waterloo fairly closely.
It of course has gone way beyond the requirements for the course, but it
does use the same message passing concept encouraged in the course, and
it runs on the same type of hardware as was used in the course (maybe
still is, not sure).

Len Sorensen
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