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The Status of the QNX OS

Posted by michael on from the how-do-you-pronounce-that-again? dept.

Eugenia writes "OS enthusiast Thom Holwerda gave a spin to the latest version of QNX RTOS, a very capable OS that unfortunately doesn't get a lot of press. With the recent sale of QNX Software to Harman International the future of the free-for-personal-usage version of the RTOS is uncertain. Nevertheless, the article presents quite a few aspects of the OS, including an introduction of the Neutrino kernel, installation, the Photon MicroGUI, hardware support, usability and more."

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  1. Anyone remember the QNX Demo Disk? by vasqzr · · Score: 5, Interesting


    1.44MB. Web browser, modem/network support, blah blah.

    Pretty neat at the time. Heck, it's still neat.

    http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html

    That was the one and only time I ever used it.

    I remember reading that Dan Hildebrand, the man behind that disk, passed away a few years back.

    http://www.openqnx.com/modules.php?op=modload&name =News&file=article&sid=298

  2. Re:Open Source QNX by Curtman · · Score: 5, Informative

    Very true. QNX began around 1980, and ran on 8088 and 6809 machines. Apparently QNX was originally called Qunix ("Quick UNIX") until AT&T asked (threatened) them that they had better change the name. Quite an interesting history behind it actually.

    Note for the humour impaired: Just for the record, I wasn't being serious.