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Ken Wong writes:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Darren Reed wrote:
> > 
> > I was thinking about this the other day and wondered how easy would it be
> > to make the kernel compile as a user process ?
> 
> I know Nate doesn't like QNX, but QNX does exactly that.

Am I the Nate you are speaking of?  If so, you're horribly confused
since I *really* like QNX.

> we should invent some good communication/synchronization machinism
> to facilite user space program to do kernel stuff.

Agreed.


Nate