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From: toby@telegraphics.com.au (Toby Thain)
Subject: [TUHS] Early Clones / Rewrites for TUHS archives
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 12:41:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b7b6edf9-d798-509e-5f30-9666a7585645@telegraphics.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9B5822A8-8F46-4FC4-B12C-681CF0ACB362@quintile.net>

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On 2017-12-18 12:35 PM, Steve Simon wrote:
> 
> maybe i am wrong but i thought QNX was open source for a while, but then
> it changed hands and the new owners “removed it from the internet”.
> 
> interestingly if this is true its only the 2nd time i have heard of this
> happening ever happening. the other one was years ago with the Khronos
> dataflow signal processing system.

What about Solaris.

--T

> 
> -Steve
> 
> 
> On 18 Dec 2017, at 16:34, Andy Kosela <akosela at andykosela.com
> <mailto:akosela at andykosela.com>> wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> On Monday, December 18, 2017, Henry Bent <henry.r.bent at gmail.com
>> <mailto:henry.r.bent at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 18 December 2017 at 10:46, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com
>>     <mailto:lm at mcvoy.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>         I think that it lives on in cars, someone told me that QNX is
>>         the basis
>>         for a lot of the car stuff.  Anyone know?
>>
>>
>>     Quite a few car systems, it seems:
>>     http://qnxauto.blogspot.ca/2015/06/the-to-z-of-qnx-in-cars.html
>>     <http://qnxauto.blogspot.ca/2015/06/the-to-z-of-qnx-in-cars.html>
>>
>>
>> I remember in the late 90s there was a demo of QNX running the whole
>> OS with GUI including web browser etc. from 1.44MB floppy.  It was
>> very fast too!  Too bad they never open sourced it.
>>
>> --Andy



  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-18 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-12 14:40 Clem Cole
2017-12-12 16:29 ` Random832
2017-12-12 16:41   ` Random832
2017-12-13  4:16 ` Jason Stevens
2017-12-13 21:22   ` Nemo
2017-12-14  0:26 ` Robert Swierczek
2017-12-18 10:10 ` Peter Jeremy
2017-12-18 15:46   ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-18 15:57     ` Steve Nickolas
2017-12-18 15:59       ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-18 16:13     ` Steve Simon
2017-12-18 16:18       ` Arthur Krewat
2017-12-18 16:15     ` Henry Bent
2017-12-18 16:34       ` Andy Kosela
2017-12-18 16:39         ` Gregg Levine
2017-12-18 17:35         ` Steve Simon
2017-12-18 17:41           ` Toby Thain [this message]
2017-12-18 18:41             ` Brad Spencer
2017-12-18 16:37       ` Gregg Levine
2017-12-18 18:32     ` Bakul Shah
2017-12-18 16:53   ` Clem Cole
2017-12-18 17:08   ` Kurt H Maier
2017-12-12 15:16 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-12 16:01 ` Warner Losh
2017-12-13  2:15 ` Nigel Williams
2017-12-13 13:46   ` Clem Cole
2017-12-13 16:58     ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-13 19:03       ` Clem Cole
2017-12-16  4:50       ` Dave Horsfall

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