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On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 10:29:04AM -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 12:27 AM Andrew Warkentin <andreww591@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > And yet, for some reason, QNX has had almost no influence on anything
> >
> Be careful with a statement like that.  It's likely running in something
> in your car. and very likely to be running in something in the last Boeing
> or Airbus-based flight you took, and it was used when Amazon made the last
> delivery to you.   It has long been popular in process control/materials
> handling/robotics/fly-by-wire systems.
> 
> When a small, very lightweight UNIX-style programming API needed to be
> used, QNX was often a favorite.


Thanks for that Clem.  One question though, all those companies want
support.  Is there anyone still providing support?  I see QNX.com is
a thing but is there an actual team of good people working on it?