[TUHS] Re: Clever code (was Re: Re: Stdin Redirect in Cu History/Alternatives?

On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 at 11:43, Harald Arnesen <skogtun(a)gmail.com> wrote: My pleasure. I am a daily Unix user but my main interests tend to lie elsewhere. I don't have any citations for this, but it looked to me, watching in the magazines at the time, that _before_ the Amiga deal, QNX did run on PCs for testing purposes, but I am not totally sure if it had a GUI at all, and little to no multimedia support. My impression is that QNX implemented that for Amiga Inc and then were left with it when Amiga turned its gaze on Tao and Elate. (Some of the best remaining info about Intent and Elate is in HN comments, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16053726 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9807269 Which leads to: http://www.uruk.org/emu/Taos.html ) I am curious to know if the TAOS virtual-processor, all-binaries-are-CPU-independent, model influenced or inspired Inferno. I think that Inferno postdates TAOS. But returning to QNX: my impression is, they implemented a GUI and multimedia frameworks for Amiga, Amiga changed its mind, and QNX offered it as a PC dev kit for a while. E.g. https://archive.org/details/qnx-neutrino-rtos-x86-runtime-kit-6.3.0-sp3 But the only mass-market end-user-facing graphical multimedia-capable QNX devices I know of were the Blackberry X smartphones. (And cancelled tablet and netbook.) I owned a Blackberry Passport. A lovely device with a lovely OS... but too late and it flopped. So, oddly, and accidentally and unintentionally, Amiga Inc was directly responsible for the Blackberry smartphone OS. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lproven(a)cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lproven(a)gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053