From: Andrew Warkentin <andreww591@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Clever code (was Re: Re: Stdin Redirect in Cu History/Alternatives?
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 01:30:23 -0700 [thread overview]
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On 12/18/22, Liam Proven <lproven@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't have any citations for this, but it looked to me, watching in
> the magazines at the time, that _before_ the Amiga deal, QNX did run
> on PCs for testing purposes, but I am not totally sure if it had a GUI
> at all, and little to no multimedia support.
>
> My impression is that QNX implemented that for Amiga Inc and then were
> left with it when Amiga turned its gaze on Tao and Elate.
>
QNX Classic and 4.x only ran on x86 machines, most of which were
either standard PCs or at least sort of PC-like (although AFAIK the
ability to run without a BIOS was present very early on). It was quite
common to run QNX on desktops as a development host for embedded
systems AFAIK.
GUIs for QNX predate the Amiga deal, and have existed since the late
80s. The original was QNX Windows, which was either a reimplementation
or port (not quite sure which) of Open Look on a custom non-X11 window
server, running on later versions of 2.x and all versions of 4.x.
Later versions of 4.x added Photon 1, which looks like a cross between
Motif and Windows 9x, again based on a custom window server (this time
with a rather unconventional multi-process architecture). The 90s-era
demo disk was based on 4.25 and Photon 1 (there was also a 2.x demo
disk back in the 80s but this didn't have a GUI).
6.0 came with Photon 2, which is still Win9x-ish in terms of
organization and is a fairly straightforward evolution of Photon 1,
although the widgets look very vaguely Amiga-like in 6.0-6.2. 6.0 came
out slightly after the Amiga deal, so that might be the reason for the
Amiga-like theming.
Neutrino was not the name of a GUI, but rather of the entire OS that
succeeded QNX 4 (the first versions of Neutrino used Photon 1 but were
incapable of self-hosting and were developed alongside 4.x; 6.0 was
the first mainline QNX version to be Neutrino-based).
>
> But the only mass-market end-user-facing graphical multimedia-capable
> QNX devices I know of were the Blackberry X smartphones. (And
> cancelled tablet and netbook.)
>
There were also the i-Opener (running 4.25) and Audrey (running 6.0)
internet appliances of the late 90s.
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Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-10 19:38 [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-11 0:22 ` [TUHS] " Clem Cole
2022-12-11 2:37 ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-11 13:59 ` Michael Kjörling
2022-12-11 14:28 ` Steve Nickolas
2022-12-11 15:04 ` Dan Cross
2022-12-13 1:54 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-11 17:18 ` Adam Thornton
2022-12-11 18:54 ` Michael Kjörling
2022-12-11 19:55 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-12-11 20:03 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-11 23:22 ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-12 2:15 ` [TUHS] Clever code (was " Bakul Shah
2022-12-12 2:44 ` [TUHS] " Steve Nickolas
2022-12-12 3:09 ` Andrew Warkentin
2022-12-12 3:34 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-12 5:00 ` Kevin Bowling
2022-12-12 5:26 ` Andrew Warkentin
2022-12-12 15:02 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-12 15:29 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-12 15:39 ` Dan Cross
2022-12-12 16:04 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-12 16:26 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-12 22:20 ` Liam Proven
2022-12-12 23:10 ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-12 23:24 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-13 2:00 ` Andrew Warkentin
2022-12-13 13:37 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-13 23:00 ` Andrew Warkentin
2022-12-14 1:05 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-14 1:40 ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-14 6:32 ` Rich Morin
2022-12-14 2:01 ` Andrew Warkentin
2022-12-14 7:49 ` arnold
2022-12-14 11:54 ` Brad Spencer
2022-12-14 12:08 ` [TUHS] Re: (TUHS -> COFF?) Re: Clever code Michael Kjörling
2022-12-14 15:14 ` [TUHS] Microware's OS-9 (was: Clever code) G. Branden Robinson
2022-12-14 22:41 ` [TUHS] " John Cowan
2022-12-14 9:46 ` [TUHS] Re: Clever code (was Re: Re: Stdin Redirect in Cu History/Alternatives? Harald Arnesen
2022-12-15 18:33 ` Liam Proven
2022-12-16 10:42 ` Harald Arnesen
2022-12-18 14:05 ` Liam Proven
2022-12-18 15:08 ` Stuff Received
2022-12-19 11:47 ` Liam Proven
2022-12-20 8:30 ` Andrew Warkentin [this message]
2022-12-20 11:57 ` Liam Proven
2022-12-15 0:29 ` Bakul Shah
2022-12-15 2:54 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-15 5:36 ` Bakul Shah
2022-12-15 14:02 ` Dan Cross
2022-12-15 14:06 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-15 14:18 ` Dan Cross
2022-12-15 14:02 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-15 8:01 ` Andrew Warkentin
2022-12-12 9:48 ` [TUHS] Re: Clever code Michael Kjörling
2022-12-12 21:34 ` [TUHS] Re: Stdin Redirect in Cu History/Alternatives? Dave Horsfall
2022-12-12 21:46 ` Chet Ramey
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