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QNX?
Calum:
so what is QNX? i was labouring under the impression that it was an operating system but after a flick through the many pages avalable on qnx.com i am not so sure, also, is it free? is it a company? is it open source? is it specific to a particular type of activity?
What is this beast called QNX and is it worth my while poking around in it if i want to have a multifaceted understanding of Unix?
cloudstrife:
from the qnx website:
Tiny yet powerful, the QNX Neutrino
cloudstrife:
kernel = base operating system
alied_perez:
quote:Originally posted by Calum:
so what is QNX? i was labouring under the impression that it was an operating system but after a flick through the many pages avalable on qnx.com i am not so sure, also, is it free? is it a company? is it open source? is it specific to a particular type of activity?
What is this beast called QNX and is it worth my while poking around in it if i want to have a multifaceted understanding of Unix?
--- End quote ---
I've been at qnx.com, and it seems to be a microkernel well-designed OS(at least this is what they say).'In the "Tanenbaum-Torvalds LINUX is obsolete" debate (back in 1992) someone mentions it as a real-world-working-microkernel-OS. This is where I first heard about it. Then I followed the link in this site to get the site. The OS is free for noncomercial uses and there is a demo floppy to download and try it. I've seen the floppy and, though very limited, it's a working OS and (if you have a supported NIC, not my case) even surf the Web and download some add-ins. As soon as I finish to download the installation(if the Internet access wouldn't kill me first) and find a box where to install it I'll tell you what's up.
Till then...
Heru:
I'm pretty sure that QNX is supposed to be used as an embedded OS. It is not very popular and seems to be failing miserably. You can download a demo version of it on 1 floppy disk to fiddle with, though.
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