Miray has announced to show their realtime OS µnOS (‘mu-nano-OS’) running on Genesi’s Open Desktop Workstation at the Systems 2005 fair for IT specialists in Munich, Germany. From the mission statement of this microkernel OS: “It is the goal to make µnOS available to the largest number of hardware platforms. A portable, scalable and real-time capable architecture should be delivered, which should make possible the usage of µnOS in embedded systems as well as in desktop computers up to servers.”
Interesting…does this OS have GUI?
Realtime? Can someone explain if this term means something different than what I think it obviously means.
I can’t think of many OS’s where one click to open a document and you have to wait until sunday when all Document-Opening tasks are batch processed.
Sure the OS will be real-time, but what about the Applications? There’s more than one way to code a slow app.
Real-time operating systems garantees critical tasks to complete within a certain bounded time. For instance if the OS is controlling a walking robot, you can’t have the task that moves the robots leg wait for some other task or IO. That could result in the robot falling.
Yo have a screenshot on its website.
“mu” is simply the greek letter that means micro in the same way that the latin letter “m” means milli and “M” means mega. I really hate when people say mu litre instead of the correct micro litre.
Dled the files and installed them onto a floppy disk.
I get the Starting message but then my PC reboots.
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Tried it, too. Runs fine under VMWare… 😉 Nice little OS, BTW!
mu-nano!!! WTF? mu=10^-9 and nano=10^-6. mu*nano equals 10^-15 which is called femto and not mu-nano. Oh my god…
Yes, it’s funny in a math-term way, but assuming you didn’t check it out, the name comes from two major features of the kernel: it combines nanokernel and microkerenl techniques. Hence the name micro-nano-OS.
Any danger of a port to an Amiga One HW?