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QNX

blackgold>> · 2009-07-02 22:29:27

Thought some of you lads might enjoy this. QNX is pronounced like "queue nicks". The simple answer is that QNX is a realtime, microkernel, preemptive, prioritized, message passing, network distributed, multitasking, multiuser, fault tolerant operating system. QNX was originally created by Dan Dodge and Gordon Bell in 1980…

02-07-2009 10:29pm

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Thought some of you lads might enjoy this.

QNX is pronounced like "queue nicks".

The simple answer is that QNX is a realtime, microkernel, preemptive, prioritized, message passing, network distributed, multitasking, multiuser, fault tolerant operating system.

QNX was originally created by Dan Dodge and Gordon Bell in 1980 and ran on prototype, wire-wrapped 8088 and 6809 machines. The QNX community benefits tremendously from the fact that Dan and Gord still play an active role in the development and coding of the QNX operating system.

The OS was originally called Qunix, "Quick UNIX", until they received a polite letter from AT&T's lawyers asking that they change the name.

One of the first high-volume applications for QNX was as the enabling technology in AES dedicated word-processing machines to provide networked file servers. QNX was also used in the ICON machines that were destined for classrooms in Ontario schools.

Today QNX is used for everything from medical instrumentation to nuclear reactor monitoring, to traffic light control, to brewing beer. You probably use QNX several times a day without being aware of it.

The current version of QNX is 6, though QNX 2 and QNX 4 are still being used by many companies. QNX 6 is also known as QNX Real Time Platform (QNX RTP), which is built on the Neutrino (NTO) microkernel technology.

QNX 6.2, the latest release of QNX 6, also comes with a new name: QNX Momentics. Momentics comes with three flavors: None Commercial (NC), Standard Edition (SE) and Professional Edition (PE).

More information about old QNX2/QNX4 can be found from those two FAQs:
http://schoenbrun.com/~mba/faq.htm
http://www.passageway.com/camz/qnx/qnx4.html.
There is also a Neutrino FAQ: http://www.parse.com/free/neutrino-faq.html.

Try it!

http://www.qnx.com/products/evaluation

Good interview

http://www.osnews.com/story/18596/QNX_Opens_Neutrino_Source_Code_Interview_QNX_CEO

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