12 Dec
2022
12 Dec
'22
9:39 p.m.
On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 10:30 AM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 12:27 AM Andrew Warkentin <andreww591(a)gmail.com> wrote:
For a while, Neutrino was open source, but that seemed to change
quietly at some point. I can't seem to find the source code online
anywhere, which surprises me a bit: I'd have assumed anyone who got a
copy of the code under the OSS license would still be able to treat it
as open source, but maybe I'm just wrong.
- Dan C.
And yet, for some reason, QNX has had almost no influence on anything
Be careful with a statement like that. It's likely running in something in your
car. and very likely to be running in something in the last Boeing or Airbus-based flight
you took, and it was used when Amazon made the last delivery to you. It has long been
popular in process control/materials handling/robotics/fly-by-wire systems.
When a small, very lightweight UNIX-style programming API needed to be used, QNX was
often a favorite.
I sometimes think QNX must have had a really good salesperson in the
'Rust-Belt.' I know I talked to several fans in companies doing that work. I
do know of a least one firm that still uses it. An inexpensive x86 can be designed into a
custom controller, and the only 'development' is the customer interface to
private HW. The development system is a PC or Vmware on an engineer's desk.
After Blackberry bought the company, it's interesting that they seem to be all that
is left of BB. But they are still going strong: QNX Neutrino RTOS