From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 24129 invoked from network); 13 Dec 2022 13:38:08 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 13 Dec 2022 13:38:08 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4623F423AA; Tue, 13 Dec 2022 23:37:32 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 724A042386 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2022 23:37:27 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id E57E935E13B; Tue, 13 Dec 2022 05:37:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 05:37:26 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: Andrew Warkentin Message-ID: <20221213133726.GA20511@mcvoy.com> References: <20221211200327.GC8801@mcvoy.com> <8F5B431B-3789-42C7-8E34-0B6A417B41CF@iitbombay.org> <20221212033453.GE8801@mcvoy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Message-ID-Hash: SFPTFBX45UNGZRYEXEVVFIQFKSDK5WPQ X-Message-ID-Hash: SFPTFBX45UNGZRYEXEVVFIQFKSDK5WPQ X-MailFrom: lm@mcvoy.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: tuhs@tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Clever code (was Re: Re: Stdin Redirect in Cu History/Alternatives? List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 07:00:34PM -0700, Andrew Warkentin wrote: > On 12/12/22, Clem Cole wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 12:27 AM Andrew Warkentin > > 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. > > > > I'm well aware that QNX has been extremely successful commercially and > can be found in a wide range of embedded systems. I'm specifically > talking about architectural influence on other OSes. Minix? QNX predated that.