Who is using QNX ?

[DJE007]

Who many have used QNX here ?

 

[jsm]

I used a lite version of it a long time ago. There was this report I heard that they had an OS on a floppy disk with PPP dialer, web browser and that used a flat video driver that would work with just about any video card out there.

This was back in... 95 or 96 (maybe later?). It worked fine too. I am sure they have moved on since then. Sadly, though - I have yet to use anything new and better from them.

Are you a QNX fan?

 

[DJE007]

No I have heard the same thing I was going to look into it, but I didn't wish to lose everything on my hard disk

 

[Homer]

I've used the QNX "OS on a floppy". Yes it does work. Pretty crude, but for real. Won't hurt your hard drive. You boot off the floppy, do what you're going to do off the floppy, your hard drive never needs to get involved.

 

[lowtech1]

The old version you can run off a floppy, but the current version you have to run it off the hdd...You can run it under a Windows environment or boot it up in its own partition.

 

[UnixFreak]

I have used QNX, after reading something on here, I downloaded the floppy version, and tried it out, I was impressed. It is really an OS, with a browser and everthing all on a floppy, I put it in a crash box, with no HD, and hit the net. A little slow, but running off the floppy drive, what would you expect. Very interesting. I would be interested in seeing what the full OS is like, if these guys could pull this off.. May be trying it sometime

 

[thegroovyguru]

I use QNX on a daily basis. They have QNX windows version out and the normal prompt style. The latest version of QNX is 4.25 and is a TRUE real time OS. It has a very small fast kernal and the maximum memory it uses is 64MB.

We run consoles that operate gas plants, power plants, oil refineries, etc... They run fail safe and hardly ever crash.

QNX is also used in a lot of hospital equipment, some bank ATM's and a few other specialized products that I have heard of.

I give it two thumbs up!