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

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 01:55:21PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> The "Photon MicroGUI".  I don't know if it is currently supported.
> 
> I remember reading an ad in Byte (I think) a long time ago (obviously)
> from QNX (before RIM bought them).  They offered a floppy-size
> bootable system with this GUI.  This is probably it:
> 
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_VlI6IBEJ0>
> 
> <https://archive.org/details/QNX_incredible_1.44m_demo_v4.0>
> 
> Pretty amazing size for the PC world, even then.  Not so amazing to
> the original Mac, Amiga, Atari ST, or CoCo III users.

I remember those floppies.  The fact it included networking and a browser
and some other apps was quite impressive.  But yes as an Amiga user,
it was only slightly impressive.

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Len Sorensen