2016-02-25 0:05 GMT+01:00 John Wallace <[email protected]>: > [snippage for brevity, sorry] > > Some readers may remember (but most won't) that in 1999, QNX released a > freely distributable demo containing their QNX kernel, their Photon > MicroGui, an IP stack including Internet connectivity capability, and a > graphical web browser which even does JavaScript. So what. Well the so what > is that it all fitted on a 1.44MB floppy to run on a PC of that era. > > Words and pictures: e.g. http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html > A movie (again from toastytech): > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_VlI6IBEJ0
I certainly remember QNX! I worked on a project back in 1997-1999, the Inform@fone. A public payphone with internet capabilities. It used QNX and photon. Someone at QNX apparently wrote an article about it: http://smallformfactors.mil-embedded.com/pdfs/QNX.Sum99.pdf It actually worked quite well on a 66 MHz 486 CPU with quite small flash memory. /Mattis > > > Never used it myself, other than the demo, but it always sounded > interesting. Maybe like VAXELN, a well kept secret. > > have a lot of fun > John Wallace > > ps > QNX doesn't have HELP ADVANCED WOMBAT or a newsletter called The Wombat > Examiner. >
