Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!ira.uka.de!smurf!gopnbg!tmpmbx!netmbx!mtheil From: mtheil@netmbx.UUCP (Matthias Theil) Newsgroups: comp.os.misc Subject: Re: QNX Message-ID: <875@netmbx.UUCP> Date: 5 Jul 90 04:54:43 GMT References: <850@netmbx.UUCP> <19951@sequoia.execu.com> Organization: netmbx, Berlin, West Germany Lines: 52 dewey@sequoia.execu.com (Dewey Henize) writes: >I don't know how others in the USA/NA/Wherever feel, but I'd love to be able >to see more info on QNX without dialing Canada - or any centralized source, >actually. After sending my article to the net I received some e-mail about the same subject and with the same feelings. One of them suggested me to collect all the different opinions and post them to the guys at Quantum. >While there's nothing *wrong* with the quics interface, the fact >that it's so far away (which means $$$s spent) and that the interface is so >alien to the net interfaces I'm used to means that it's quite awkward for me >to get to. On the occasions I've tried to keep up with discussions there, >the LD costs got pretty extreme and following the threads was awkward as heck. >(God, I wanted an rn 'k' a lot, knowing the bills were mounting up.) That's the fact ! One must spent a lot of money, the interface isn't anything which one can call "The State of the Art" but the informations and the possibilties to get in contact with other QNX-Users are the greatest in the world ( do this happen by accident ? :-( ). >I wonder if there'd be any interest in an alt.qnx or similiar? I'd carry it >and pass it on (its good to be the news admin :-) if there were some way to >get it gatewayed from quantum. Since I can talk to uunet, it would be pretty >easy at this end. I have nightime TB+ capacity as well. I think it would be more effective if we could win the guys at Quantum for such ideas. Here on the net, Frank Kolnick can be found, who has written a (very good !) book about QNX. How I can remember he has very good contacts to Quantum and could perhaps help us in such projects. >Reading and keeping up on QNX would be wonderful using the interfaces I'm >used to... We here in Berlin, Patrick Wendt and me, will try to create something that really works with UUCP under QNX. I think that would help a lot. We could place this UUCP-Software on QUICS's FreeWare-Area and over this way there are perhaps any other users which build up an UUCP-Site with their QNX-machines. After that it would make senses to create something like alt.qnx or comp.os.qnx ... If there are any suitable informations to help us planning and doing the implementation of UUCP on QNX, please e-mail me. Matthias -- Matthias Theil - Bundesplatz 12a - D-1000 Berlin 31 - ++49 (0)30 85 47 67-3 UUCP: mtheil@netmbx.UUCP -=*=- BITNET : mtheil%netmbx@db0tui6.bitnet "Shields, check. Deflectors, check. Halon extinguisher, check. Asbestos suit, check. Gas mask, check. SCBA, check. OK - post it !" -Unky Dave