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From: dan@prairie.UUCP
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Subject: Re: O/S_QNX for PC's
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Date: Mon, 11-May-87 10:48:15 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 11 10:48:15 1987
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Reply-To: dan@prairie.UUCP (Daniel M. Frank)
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In article <903@bc-cis.UUCP> raanan@bc-cis.UUCP (Raanan Herrmann) writes:
>	I used the system, I had 2 PCs on the LAN. In general, since it is
>a propriety OS, you can not find much software for it,
   
   Not as much as Unix or PC-DOS (although you can run most of your
DOS software as a task under QNX), but there is a large catalog of
third party software available.  A good deal of it is vertical market,
to be sure.  If you want lots of software, the only choice is PC-DOS.

>there are many bugs,

   It's pretty unfair to make this claim.  Every system has some bugs.
What kind did you find?  Compiler bugs?  OS crashes?  Application software
problems?  Library glitches?  I've worked with QNX quite a bit, and other
than the early release of the Basic compiler, I've found about two bugs
myself.

>the system is not friendly

   What precisely does "friendly" mean in the this context?  It doesn't
work just like Unix?  I remember being infuriated the first time I used
QNX because it didn't work the way I expected it to.  This passes, with
time.

   What would make QNX friendly?  How about a full-screen mail reader?
Hmmm.  It's got one of those.  Full-screen appointment scheduler?  
Got one of those.  Easy remote login and execution?  Easy to use DOS
file and task interface?  `make' program?  What are you comparing it
to?

>and the documentation is terrible.

   Compared to what?  There are two manuals worth of documentation.
Unlike the Unix manuals, I can actually find stuff in them, and
understand it once I've found it.  What precisely did you want?

   Everyone is entitled to their opinion.  QNX is not perfect.  If
someone doesn't like it, and they are going to broadcast that fact
to an entire continent, it would probably be a good idea, or at least
reasonably polite and fair to say why in a more specific way.

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