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From: dan@prairie.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: O/S_QNX for PC's
Message-ID: <450@prairie.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-May-87 09:18:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: prairie.450
Posted: Tue May  5 09:18:01 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 7-May-87 01:27:59 EDT
References: <651@ma.ecn.purdue.edu> <575@sdiris1.UUCP>
Reply-To: dan@prairie.UUCP (Daniel M. Frank)
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In article <575@sdiris1.UUCP> jjc@sdiris1.UUCP (Jim J. Carter) writes:
>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?  

   I've written quite an exhaustive note to mattern about this.  Perhaps
he can repost or remail it if there is enough interest.

>My questions :
>Does QNX run on top of MS-DOS?? 

   No.  But MS-DOS will run as a task under QNX, and QNX can read and
write MS-DOS file systems (including hard disk partitions) as easily 
as its own.  It's pretty slick.

>Do you need special libraries and/or compilers to run under QNX??

   QNX comes with a C compiler and lots of libraries.

>Is there some type of "termcap" for different types of terminals ??

   Yes.  There is something called `tcap'.  You fill out a full-screen
form to register a terminal.  It supports color and function keys.
It also knows if the terminal is a console and uses a direct-to-video-
memory shared library that has blinding speed, even on an XT.

   tcap has features to support line drawing, bar graphs, and automatic
bounce-bar menus.  It's quite a bit richer than termcap in that respect.

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