Re: [SLUG] QNX??

From: R P Herrold (herrold@owlriver.com)
Date: Thu May 17 2001 - 17:17:49 EDT


On Thu, 17 May 2001, Mike Lamarca wrote:

> I know this may not be a true Linux question, but does anyone have any
> experience with an OS called QNX? The company I work for is looking to
> purchase a new machine, and the machine runs off of QNX. Nobody I have
> talked to, including the salesman, can tell me much about it. All the
> salesman says is that it is more stable then windoze(isn't everything), and
> it runs a GUI. Thanks in advance

Sure ---- been using it since Token Rung and ARCnet days --
forget which QNX/3 used ...

They added the TCP stack in v. 4.

There is a free D/L of the base OS, and the expected GPL tool
suite -- this is a new development within the last year or so
...

Linux'rs, BSDian's, and Unixia' folk will feel at home -- it
is small, fast, and essentially a microkernel Unix. Often
used in embeeded applications before the rise of the first two
mentioned in the preceeding sentence. The host:
bopper.wcbe.org formerly ran QNX/3 with a multi-port serial
card, before it was cut over to Linux.

-- Russ



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