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Old 02-02-2010, 08:35 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by Godzil View Post
QNX 3.0 is pretty old, and the latest is unable to do such a thing. QNX is no more a viable OS for end-user (cost too much, not enought application) QNX will stay as a niche for RT-OS.

If you go further with a 68000 @ 8Mhz & 4Mo of RAM you have a Mac Plus that may be able to do some internet things too. But no, using old software is not a solution.
I know that QNX 3.0 is old. The company I work for maintains quite a few systems running on it.

I was just using it as an example that you can have an operating system that is fully functioning, very fast, very small and very efficient.

The main weakness of QNX is that the developers are unable to keep up with the hardware development. We have storage of old, never unboxed network interface cards, graphics cards and other hardware so we can keep the systems running.

If you have a system with fixed hardware configuration - like A4 system on a chip - the development is much easier. And you can stand on shoulders of giants
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