Re: [GTALUG] QNX [was Re: Linux servers attacked!]

[John Moniz via talk]

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> From: James Knott via talk 
> Date: May 11, 2020 at 2:02 PM
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> On 2020-05-11 01:55 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> > I remember reading an ad in Byte (I think) a long time ago (obviously)
> > from QNX (before RIM bought them). They offered a floppy-size
> > bootable system with this GUI. This is probably it:
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> I have every paper issue of Byte on the shelf behind me.  I don't recall
> seeing videos in any of them. ;-)
> 

They're byte size videos.

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Re: [GTALUG] QNX [was Re: Linux servers attacked!]

[Kevin Cozens via talk]

On 2020-05-11 1:55 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:

from QNX (before RIM bought them).  They offered a floppy-size
bootable system with this GUI.  This is probably it:




Thanks for the link. First time I've seen the GUI for QnX. As a programmer I 
really liked the mechanism for passing messages between tasks. I've seen 
other libraries try to emulate it for Linux.


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Re: [GTALUG] QNX [was Re: Linux servers attacked!]

[James Knott via talk]

On 2020-05-11 02:02 PM, James Knott wrote:

On 2020-05-11 01:55 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:

I remember reading an ad in Byte (I think) a long time ago (obviously)
from QNX (before RIM bought them).  They offered a floppy-size
bootable system with this GUI.  This is probably it:




I have every paper issue of Byte on the shelf behind me.  I don't 
recall seeing videos in any of them. ;-)




I just pulled out the Aug. 1990 issue of Byte and found, on page 281, 
"The QNX operating system - A real time Unix-like operating system for 
the low-end PC" by Tom Yager.  At the end of the article is contact info 
for Quantum Software Systems, in Kanata, complete with phone number.



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Re: [GTALUG] QNX [was Re: Linux servers attacked!]

[Lennart Sorensen via talk]

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 01:55:21PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> The "Photon MicroGUI".  I don't know if it is currently supported.
> 
> I remember reading an ad in Byte (I think) a long time ago (obviously)
> from QNX (before RIM bought them).  They offered a floppy-size
> bootable system with this GUI.  This is probably it:
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> Pretty amazing size for the PC world, even then.  Not so amazing to
> the original Mac, Amiga, Atari ST, or CoCo III users.

I remember those floppies.  The fact it included networking and a browser
and some other apps was quite impressive.  But yes as an Amiga user,
it was only slightly impressive.

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Re: [GTALUG] QNX [was Re: Linux servers attacked!]

[James Knott via talk]

On 2020-05-11 01:55 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:

I remember reading an ad in Byte (I think) a long time ago (obviously)
from QNX (before RIM bought them).  They offered a floppy-size
bootable system with this GUI.  This is probably it:




I have every paper issue of Byte on the shelf behind me.  I don't recall 
seeing videos in any of them. ;-)


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[GTALUG] QNX [was Re: Linux servers attacked!]

[D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk]

| From: Lennart Sorensen via talk 
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| Well BB10 of course had a GUI framework for apps, which I don't think
| had anything to do with QNX, although I am not sure if QNX ever had
| any particular GUI interface in particular.  I have seen a number of
| different ones running on top of QNX over the years.

The "Photon MicroGUI".  I don't know if it is currently supported.

I remember reading an ad in Byte (I think) a long time ago (obviously)
from QNX (before RIM bought them).  They offered a floppy-size
bootable system with this GUI.  This is probably it:





Pretty amazing size for the PC world, even then.  Not so amazing to
the original Mac, Amiga, Atari ST, or CoCo III users.
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