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From: jjc@sdiris1.UUCP (Jim J. Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: O/S_QNX for PC's
Message-ID: <575@sdiris1.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-May-87 07:53:02 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  4 07:53:02 1987
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in article <651@ma.ecn.purdue.edu>, mattern@ma.ecn.purdue.edu (Duane L Mattern) says:
> 
> 
> Does anyone have any information about the operating system
> QNX for PC's 8086,186,286?  It is suppose to be a multitasking,
> multi-user UNIX look alike for the ibm PC compatibles.

I was under the impression that it was *NOT* a unix look alike.
In fact that was the main point in the add I read a few months
ago.  It had a message passing/os at the low level(somewhat like MINIX:
mabey a bad example).  

> is anyone using this system?  How many systems do you have on
> the LAN?  Is the group that wrote this O/S on the Net 
> 
> Duane L. Mattern, Controls	  ARPA:  mattern@ecn.purdue.edu

From what I read, the os looked very interesting and quite usefull.
I would like to know more about it if anyone has some information.

My questions :
Does QNX run on top of MS-DOS?? 
Do you need special libraries and/or compilers to run under QNX??
Is there some type of "termcap" for different types of terminals ??
etc,etc,etc...

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