18 Dec
2017
18 Dec
'17
11:41 p.m.
On 2017-12-18 12:35 PM, Steve Simon wrote:
maybe i am wrong but i thought QNX was open source for a while, but then
it changed hands and the new owners “removed it from the internet”.
interestingly if this is true its only the 2nd time i have heard of this
happening ever happening. the other one was years ago with the Khronos
dataflow signal processing system.
What about Solaris.
--T
-Steve
On 18 Dec 2017, at 16:34, Andy Kosela <akosela(a)andykosela.com
<mailto:akosela@andykosela.com>> wrote:
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> On Monday, December 18, 2017, Henry Bent <henry.r.bent(a)gmail.com
> <mailto:henry.r.bent@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> On 18 December 2017 at 10:46, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com
> <mailto:lm@mcvoy.com>> wrote:
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> I think that it lives on in cars, someone told me that QNX is
> the basis
> for a lot of the car stuff. Anyone know?
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> Quite a few car systems, it seems:
> http://qnxauto.blogspot.ca/2015/06/the-to-z-of-qnx-in-cars.html
> <http://qnxauto.blogspot.ca/2015/06/the-to-z-of-qnx-in-cars.html>
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> I remember in the late 90s there was a demo of QNX running the whole
> OS with GUI including web browser etc. from 1.44MB floppy. It was
> very fast too! Too bad they never open sourced it.
>
> --Andy