Linked by James Ingraham on Mon 24th Jul 2006 11:15 UTC
In today's entry in our Alternative OS Contest, James Ingraham takes a close look at QNX, the operating system based on the Neutrino microkernel. He concludes that "While you can probably find solutions for just about all of your desktop computing needs using the QNX RTOS, that is not QNX's strong suit. Its focus is real-time, embedded, and mission critical applications." Read on for the whole article.
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You have to remember that the first generation of ICONs were 80186 and 80286 machines. Any OS on those systems would be painfully slow, not to mention it was using a dedicated file server using 10base2 network.