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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
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Subject: Re: QNX  and the ICON
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Date: Mon, 5-Dec-83 13:06:31 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  5 13:06:31 1983
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Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ontario
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For those interested, QNX will be the operating system for the CemCorp
ICON computer.  The kernal will be placed in ROM!!!!!

For those not familiar, the ICON is a microcomputer designed for the
educational market by a company specially set up to do so.  They will
be in schools all over Ontario next year.

It has an 80186 processor, minimum 256k ram, non-detachable keyboard (for
schools - but there is a connector for developers) trackball for pointing,
bitmap display.  Integral monitor, too.

The interface is based on pointing with the trackball and pop-up menus.
Each one also has a 2.5 megabit ARCNET interface so you can tie them to
a fileserver.

The catch here is that schools get a tremendous subsidy if they buy one.
While the Ministry of Education pays CemCorp $2,500 Canadian for them, they
sell it to the school boards for around $900!  So few schools will be
without one.
-- 
	Brad Templeton - Waterloo, Ontario (519) 886-7304