Path: utzoo!utgpu!mnetor!frank
From: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: QNX & QTalk Forsale $400
Message-ID: <5679@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 91 00:32:46 GMT
References: <hart.665678481@blackjack> <1991Feb6.013047.15240@anomaly.SBS.COM>
Reply-To: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
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In article <1991Feb6.013047.15240@anomaly.SBS.COM> mpd@anomaly.SBS.COM (Michael P. Deignan) writes:
>hart@blackjack.dt.navy.mil (Michael Hart) writes:
>...
>>QNX is *nix-like in its command structure.
>
>But is completely un-compatible at the source code level.

I wouldn't say 'completely'. It supports the standard C library, and
supplements it with its own message-passing primitives. Which is not to
say there aren't inconsistencies. However, this will become moot with the
next release (this spring) which is fully Posix-compliant.

-- 
Frank Kolnick,
Basis Computer Systems Inc.
UUCP: {allegra, linus}!utzoo!mnetor!frank