From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: khm@sciops.net (Kurt H Maier) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 09:08:00 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] Early Clones / Rewrites for TUHS archives In-Reply-To: <20171218101055.GA46385@server.rulingia.com> References: <20171218101055.GA46385@server.rulingia.com> Message-ID: <20171218170800.GA87406@wopr> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 09:10:55PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > One thing I haven't seen mentioned is QNX - I didn't directly use it but a > colleague was using it in the mid-1980s on PC-AT class hardware. ISTR one > of my colleague's whinges was the 256-byte command-line limit. Blackberry's phones are no longer QNX-based (they fell to the advancing Android hordes) but they still own it and are targeting the IVI market with it, apparently. They have a no-commercial-use no-cost license available. The first QNX device I saw in the wild was the 3com Audrey, which was a little all-in-one computer with an infrared keyboard and a resistive touchscreen. 3com seemed to want to sell them for kitchen use, but then the dot-com bust happened and the Audrey went with it. The QNX deployment on it was sufficiently unixlike that step one in doing anything interesting was exploiting a privilege escalation and editing the passwd file. khm