[GTALUG] BlackBerry [was Re: Linux servers attacked!]

[Kevin Cozens]

On 2020-05-11 12:45 a.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> QNX is (I think) quite a solid system.  It has a serious niche in the
> automotive world.  My guess is that it will be crushed by Linux.
> 
> - QNX is better for real-time things
> 
> - QNX can be a lot leaner than Linux

I liked QnX. It used a micro kernel architecture. I used it on 286, and 
later 386, based computers when I was working for a market research company 
back in the DOS era pre-Windows. I used versions 2 and 3 of it. GUI stuff 
wasn't added to QnX until version 4. I never used QnX version 4. The 386 and 
486 computers were fast enough that I was able to port the entire system to 
DOS only. I don't often hear about QnX. Interesting to hear of it used in a 
commercial product.

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