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Comment by ryao

OSF/1 is the closest that microkernels ever came to being used in general purpose operating systems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSF/1

The only still living variant is AIX. Some of the code is in the XNU kernel, although that is a monolithic kernel rather than a microkernel. Apple converted it to a monolithic design for performance reasons.

That said, this article suggests that AIX is not using a microkernel either:

https://tedium.co/2019/02/28/ibm-workplace-os-taligent-histo...

parent ryao 1 year ago

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