[H-GEN] QNX, request for info.
Martin Pool
m.pool at pharos.com.au
Tue May 20 04:22:06 EDT 1997
> Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 18:11:14 +1000 (GMT+1000)
> From: Jason Parker <ph330812 at student.uq.edu.au>
> Do any Humbuggers know where we (Simon Lusan, Jason Parker) can:
>
> o Get hold of QNX, and for how much.
> o Get more information about it in general. (Does it run GNU stuff?
> How stable/usable is it really? Does it coexist happily with
> Linux/Dos/Win95?)
> o We know of an X11 release, what's this like?
>
> In short, we're looking into bringing a new Unix along to humbug, but
> I (Jason) for one won't be trashing my beloved Linux (and forsaking
> nethack!) without good reason.
>From what I've heard (I've only used it briefly):
- it's very stable and very interesting
- it's not much like "Unix" (whatever that is), and so people with
Unix experience have a bit to learn to set it up.
- Students can get it at nominal cost direct from QNX (www.qnx.com?).
(I think you might need a letter from your department.) Ask nicely.
- It can coexist with DOS.
- The native windowing system is not X11, and arguably better.
- It should run nicely on Jason's tiny machine, if that's what he had
in mind. You can make it do useful things on a 386, apparently.
I haven't seen it for a while. I'd be interested to hear how it goes.
--
Martin Pool, Pharos Business Solutions <m.pool at pharos.com.au>
"Linux was made by foreign terrorists to take money from true US
companies like Microsoft." -Some AOL'er.
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