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"Desktop system" is vague, but obviously u-kernels can serve as workstations, and hence desktops. CTOS was a major example of its day, if not the purest possible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_Technologies_Operat...



FWIW, CTOS was surprisingly unportable, which is hugely contradictory to the claimed advantages in this particular discussion.




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