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From: wnp@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Wolf Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: QNX Operating System
Message-ID: <8141@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 20 May 89 00:56:07 GMT
References: <634@pmafire.UUCP> <935@mks.UUCP>
Reply-To: wnp@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Wolf Paul)
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection BBS, Dallas, Tx
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In article <935@mks.UUCP> wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) writes:
>I did some work for Quantum once, and used QNX for a couple of years. 
>It is very good, with a couple of caveats.
>
>One is that QNX is close to Unix, but not quite.  For example, the
>options to their commands are often different that Unix's.  And if
>you're a programmer, their system calls are just close enough to be
>frustrating.  However, I understand they are cleaning things up in this
>area. 

So, is MKS planning to port the Toolkit to QNX? that would resolve the
problem of command options being different :-) ...

Wolf Paul
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