18 Dec
2017
18 Dec
'17
11:08 p.m.
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 09:10:55PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
One thing I haven't seen mentioned is QNX - I
didn't directly use it but a
colleague was using it in the mid-1980s on PC-AT class hardware. ISTR one
of my colleague's whinges was the 256-byte command-line limit.
Blackberry's phones are no longer QNX-based (they fell to the advancing
Android hordes) but they still own it and are targeting the IVI market
with it, apparently. They have a no-commercial-use no-cost license
available.
The first QNX device I saw in the wild was the 3com Audrey, which was a
little all-in-one computer with an infrared keyboard and a resistive
touchscreen. 3com seemed to want to sell them for kitchen use, but then
the dot-com bust happened and the Audrey went with it. The QNX
deployment on it was sufficiently unixlike that step one in doing
anything interesting was exploiting a privilege escalation and editing
the passwd file.
khm