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Re: Linux and QNX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (UNIXMAN)
Sun Nov 15 15:06:01 1998
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 15:15:15 -0500 (EST)
From: UNIXMAN <jzygmont@alpha.confederationc.on.ca>
To: Jesper Frank Nemholt <dassic@login.dknet.dk>
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <364ED4DE.A8444507@login.dknet.dk>
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On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Jesper Frank Nemholt wrote:
> > Subject: Re: Linux and QNX
> > Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 23:00:11 -0500 (EST)
> > From: Ian Lumb <ilumb@platform.com>
> > To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> >
> > On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, UNIXMAN wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a web page for QNX? I grew up with with QNX since I was a
> > > kid in school; since it was developed at U of Waterloo, all of the
> > > schools in ontario got it for free. My college now replaced QNX with
> > > linux for it's engineering courses.
> >
> > I also recall hearing about QNX ... I was looking for a real-time
> > operating system to facilitate data collection and process control
> > for some physical experiments that I was doing ...
> >
> > Does QNX offer a *complete* implementation of UNIX - as Linux is?
>
> QNX Software Systems are located at http://www.qnx.com/
>
> If you ask in a friendly way, they're known to send people lots of
> information about all their products. You even get a small book about
> the QNX OS System Architecture. Nice !
>
> Regarding the Unix implementation. It's POSIX/UNIX compliant in all
> important areas, so it's not that difficult to migrate from Linux/Unix
> to QNX.
> It _does_ have alot of extra features, but they're all built on top of
> the normal Unix stuff, so you should be able to feel at home in short
> time and be able to move Linux/Unix applications to QNX without having
> to rewrite much of the code.
> Ofcourse, since some of it's aim is at embedded systems, you can scale
> down the OS to allmost nothing, and in this step also loose the full
> Unix compliancy.
>
> QNX is (still) a very cool product. It also runs on MIPS & PowerPC CPU's
> today.
> BTW: Check out the demodisk. It's the OS, the GUI, a web browser, a web
> server and TCP/IP support on a bootable 1.44 MB floppy.
well, I remember when I used it it wasn't compatible with other versions
of unix, it wasn't a true multitasker, some of the commands where
different, and it was BSDish; it was running on 8088 workstations. That
was with version 4.xxx I suppose things are different now.
> > l8r/Jspr
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