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> While it is a microkernel, it's real world reliability has been poor in the past.

Nitpick/clarification: it currently supervises the security posture, attestation state and overall health of several billion(?) Intel CPUs as the kernel used by the latest version of the Management Engine.

If ME is shut down completely apparently the CPU switches off within 20 minutes. Presumably this applies across the full uptime of the processor, and not just immediately after boot, and iff this is the case... percentage of Intel CPUs that randomly switch off === instability/unreliability of Minix in a tightly controlled industrial setting.




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