20 Feb
1998
20 Feb
'98
12:06 p.m.
At 02:46 PM 2/20/98 PST, you wrote:
and ran it fine when it had 8MB. Visual Basic and IE4
(I don't use
it regulary, Opera at www.operasoftware.com is much better: 1MB
download!)
If you think that's cool, you need to check out what they are doing with QNX:
http://www.qnx.com/iat/createdemo.html
QNX is a very small micro-kernel OS that has the look of Windows 95, has
builtin TCP/IP networking, a notepad, a few other little doodads, and to
top it off, a fully functional HTML 3.2 compliant web browser. Also
supports graphics modes up to 1024x768 in millions of colors.
Okay, not amazing enough for you already? How about if I told you it all
ran off a 1.44mb floppy disk? Hmmmm? :)
Everyone owes to themselves to go grab this FREE (yes, FREE) OS and try it
for themselves.
-John Higginbotham-
-limbo.netpath.net-
20 Feb
20 Feb
12:54 p.m.
On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, John Higginbotham wrote:
QNX is a very small micro-kernel OS that has the look
of Windows 95, has
builtin TCP/IP networking, a notepad, a few other little doodads, and to
top it off, a fully functional HTML 3.2 compliant web browser. Also
supports graphics modes up to 1024x768 in millions of colors.
I think the QNX window manager has a Motif look+feel which Win95
borrowed. GeoWorks GEOS also has a Motif l+f, but it will run quite
nicely on an 8088 with 640K RAM.
Of course, everything that is not Windows suffers from a lack of
applications, but with QNX your choices would be *very* limited.
I think Linux is the best choice to enable latter day retrocomputing.
Check out the ELKS project to put Linux on machines with very limited
resources:
http://www.uk.linux.org/ELKS-Home/index.html
I find it somewhat ironic that the latest thing is the "network computer"
and inexpensive "thin clients." All you need to do is pull the 386 box
out of your attic, install Linux, and stick an "NC" sticker on it.
-- Doug
21 Feb
21 Feb
7:06 p.m.
Yowza! wrote:
I find it somewhat ironic that the latest thing is the
"network computer"
and inexpensive "thin clients." All you need to do is pull the 386 box
out of your attic, install Linux, and stick an "NC" sticker on it.
Been there. Done that. Got paid for it. Except for the "NC" sticker.
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.
20 Feb
20 Feb
8:41 p.m.
On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, John Higginbotham wrote:
If you think that's cool, you need to check out
what they are doing with QNX:
http://www.qnx.com/iat/createdemo.html
QNX is a very small micro-kernel OS that has the look of Windows 95, has
builtin TCP/IP networking, a notepad, a few other little doodads, and to
top it off, a fully functional HTML 3.2 compliant web browser. Also
supports graphics modes up to 1024x768 in millions of colors.
Okay, not amazing enough for you already? How about if I told you it all
ran off a 1.44mb floppy disk? Hmmmm? :)
Everyone owes to themselves to go grab this FREE (yes, FREE) OS and try it
for themselves.
QNX is great. However, unless they totally changed their business model
within the last year, it is hardly free. In fact, once you do a
costs/benfits analysis of QNX and compare it to something like Linux, I'd
rather go with Linux since Linux has better development tools in some
respects and EVERYTHING is free (including grep). I don't know if QNX has
done anything in the past year and a half, but when I was playing with it
their development tools were lacking.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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