24 Feb
2016
24 Feb
'16
3:05 p.m.
[snippage for brevity, sorry]
Some readers may remember (but most won't) that in 1999, QNX released a freely
distributable demo containing their QNX kernel, their Photon MicroGui, an IP stack
including Internet connectivity capability, and a graphical web browser which even does
JavaScript. So what. Well the so what is that it all fitted on a 1.44MB floppy to run on a
PC of that era.
Words and pictures: e.g. http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html
A movie (again from toastytech): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_VlI6IBEJ0
Never used it myself, other than the demo, but it always sounded interesting. Maybe like
VAXELN, a well kept secret.
have a lot of fun
John Wallace
ps
QNX doesn't have HELP ADVANCED WOMBAT or a newsletter called The Wombat Examiner.
24 Feb
24 Feb
3:43 p.m.
New subject: R: QNX - was Re: Minix 3 vs portability
I do remember, and I had (still have) that floppy.
I've also tried the full qnx, and it's the best thing I ever tried, likely
-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] Per conto di John Wallace
Inviato: gioved? 25 febbraio 2016 00:05
A: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Oggetto: Re: QNX - was Re: Minix 3 vs portability
[snippage for brevity, sorry]
Some readers may remember (but most won't) that in 1999, QNX released a freely
distributable demo containing their QNX kernel, their Photon MicroGui, an IP stack
including Internet connectivity capability, and a graphical web browser which even does
JavaScript. So what. Well the so what is that it all fitted on a 1.44MB floppy to run on a
PC of that era.
Words and pictures: e.g. http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html
A movie (again from toastytech): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_VlI6IBEJ0
Never used it myself, other than the demo, but it always sounded interesting. Maybe like
VAXELN, a well kept secret.
have a lot of fun
John Wallace
ps
QNX doesn't have HELP ADVANCED WOMBAT or a newsletter called The Wombat Examiner.
4:01 p.m.
New subject: R: QNX - was Re: Minix 3 vs portability
On 02/24/2016 03:43 PM, Mazzini Alessandro wrote:
I do remember, and I had (still have) that floppy.
I've also tried
the full qnx, and it's the best thing I ever tried, likely
There were actually a couple of versions of this. One with NIC support
and another with modem support. There was apparently a couple of
add-ons that were available.
Great fun, those.
--Chuck
9:02 p.m.
New subject: R: QNX - was Re: Minix 3 vs portability
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 4:01 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 02/24/2016 03:43 PM, Mazzini Alessandro wrote:
I remember talking with some of the QNX folks at RTECC (Real Time and
Embedded Computer Conferences) a number of years ago, back when I was Test
Manager for the Windows CE kernel (which at the time was a soft RT OS). I
was always intrigued with and impressed by their product - some very good
thinking went into that, IMHO.
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu>
Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical
Narrative Through a Design Lens
Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org>
Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org>
University of Washington
There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
I do remember, and I had (still have) that
floppy. I've also tried
the full qnx, and it's the best thing I ever tried, likely
There were actually a couple of versions of this. One with NIC support
and another with modem support. There was apparently a couple of add-ons
that were available.
Great fun, those.
--Chuck
11:39 p.m.
2016-02-25 0:05 GMT+01:00 John Wallace <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk>:
[snippage for brevity, sorry]
Some readers may remember (but most won't) that in 1999, QNX released a
freely distributable demo containing their QNX kernel, their Photon
MicroGui, an IP stack including Internet connectivity capability, and a
graphical web browser which even does JavaScript. So what. Well the so what
is that it all fitted on a 1.44MB floppy to run on a PC of that era.
Words and pictures: e.g. http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html
A movie (again from toastytech):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_VlI6IBEJ0
I certainly remember QNX!
I worked on a project back in 1997-1999, the Inform at fone. A public payphone
with internet capabilities. It used QNX and photon. Someone at QNX
apparently wrote an article about it:
http://smallformfactors.mil-embedded.com/pdfs/QNX.Sum99.pdf
It actually worked quite well on a 66 MHz 486 CPU with quite small flash
memory.
/Mattis
Never used it myself, other than the demo, but it always sounded
interesting. Maybe like VAXELN, a well kept secret.
have a lot of fun
John Wallace
ps
QNX doesn't have HELP ADVANCED WOMBAT or a newsletter called The Wombat
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