18 Dec
2017
18 Dec
'17
10:13 p.m.
Qnx is used in cars quite a bit , also in the telecoms sector i wad told.
we used it for control of image processing systems, however it it wad a rather foolish
management decision IMHO as qnx is heavyweight for the simple user interfaces we needed
-Steve
On 18 Dec 2017, at 15:46, Larry McVoy
<lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 09:10:55PM +1100, Peter
Jeremy wrote:
I've used it in that timeframe. It was pretty amazing on a 286, you could
have multiple people logged in via terminals and get work done.
I became friends with one of the people who did the OS:
Dan Hildebrandt (QNX) 613-591-0931 x204 (RIP 1998)
I can't remember how we crossed paths, but we both cared about design
a lot and liked bouncing ideas off of each other.
QNX was an actual microkernel, the kernel part neatly fit in a 4K
instruction cache. I remember Dan telling me that it worked because
only a few people were allowed to touch the actual kernel, they wanted
to keep it small and fast.
This was all pre-posix, it was Unix-like but porting stuff was much
harder than going from SunOS to IRIX.
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? On 2017-Dec-12 09:40:31 -0500, Clem Cole
<clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
My question about SOL got me thinking a bit. It would be nice to have
section in TUHS of any early clones that could be collected.
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.