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 29246 invoked from network); 18 Dec 2022 15:08:53 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 18 Dec 2022 15:08:53 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A99D141C73; Mon, 19 Dec 2022 01:08:16 +1000 (AEST) Received: from vmail1.sentex.ca (vmail1.sentex.ca [64.7.153.19]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 40CE641C64 for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2022 01:08:12 +1000 (AEST) Received: (Haraka outbound); Sun, 18 Dec 2022 10:08:10 -0500 Authentication-Results: vmail1.sentex.ca; auth=pass (plain) Received: from [10.0.1.25] (198.27.14-65.ip.mltn.standardbroadband.ca [198.27.14.65]) by vmail1.sentex.ca (Haraka/2.8.25) with ESMTPSA id 86369259-13FF-4455-9ABC-6C87F2C87521.1 envelope-from (authenticated bits=0) (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256); Sun, 18 Dec 2022 10:08:10 -0500 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2022 10:08:09 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.10.0 Content-Language: en-CA To: tuhs@tuhs.org References: <20221211200327.GC8801@mcvoy.com> <8F5B431B-3789-42C7-8E34-0B6A417B41CF@iitbombay.org> <20221212033453.GE8801@mcvoy.com> <20221213133726.GA20511@mcvoy.com> <20221214010531.GK20511@mcvoy.com> <018ac308-b67f-4e5a-4ae5-03f492900847@gmail.com> <37f4dd4e-c8b9-cd91-b4a5-aaa6cf3839ec@gmail.com> From: Stuff Received In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Haraka-GeoIP: NA, CA, ON, Georgetown, 57km Message-ID-Hash: 34GQUYY7SYJ53LOSO7LU6S7QR37EPMRV X-Message-ID-Hash: 34GQUYY7SYJ53LOSO7LU6S7QR37EPMRV X-MailFrom: stuff@riddermarkfarm.ca 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 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 2022-12-18 09:05, Liam Proven wrote (in part): [...] > But returning to QNX: my impression is, they implemented a GUI and > multimedia frameworks for Amiga, Amiga changed its mind, and QNX > offered it as a PC dev kit for a while. > > E.g. > https://archive.org/details/qnx-neutrino-rtos-x86-runtime-kit-6.3.0-sp3 QNX initially ran only on x86 kit. I do not recall a GUI at that time. > 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.) The BB10 i/f was designed by TAT (https://www.engadget.com/2010-12-02-rim-buys-tat-blackberry-ui-in-danger-of-becoming-awesome.html). > I owned a Blackberry Passport. A lovely device with a lovely OS... but > too late and it flopped. Quite so. N.