http://www.osnews.com/story/26265/QNX_Neutrino_OS_6_5_SP1_released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 20 May 2013 14:32:57 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?530617 http://www.osnews.com/thread?530617 Wait a minute. We still run QNX4. Fri, 10 Aug 2012 20:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jefro) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?530639 http://www.osnews.com/thread?530639 aaah, memories. I used to use QNX4 boot floppies on a 386... I miss that box. Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (helf) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?530641 http://www.osnews.com/thread?530641 That famous Demo disk they made available in the late 90s ('97, I think) changed the way I looked at OSes for a long time. I too ran QNX on a 40mhz 386 and always hoped they hit the consumer market more strongly. QNX is really the main reason I still follow Blackberry. Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (PaxD75) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?530655 http://www.osnews.com/thread?530655 I think QNX is too widely used in the industry to disappear, even if Blackberry goes down, some other company will pick it up. Sat, 11 Aug 2012 08:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (moondevil) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?530658 http://www.osnews.com/thread?530658 I used to have a copy of that disk. I think I still might somewhere. Time to dig it out!! Sat, 11 Aug 2012 08:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (henderson101) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?530662 http://www.osnews.com/thread?530662 One thing that has already trickled down from BlackBerry10 is first class support for Qt (4 and 5).

The people working on Qt-on-QNX are even committed to becoming a Tier 1 platform for Qt, i.e. officially on the same level as Windows, Linux and OS X. Sat, 11 Aug 2012 10:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (anda_skoa) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?530752 http://www.osnews.com/thread?530752 http://qnx.projektas.lt/qnxdemo/qnx_demo_disk.htm nowadays, typically most likely faster than digging out any floppy

PS. Curious, IOS is based on QNX.Edited 2012-08-11 19:35 UTC Sat, 11 Aug 2012 19:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zima) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?530925 http://www.osnews.com/thread?530925 edit: Ah, IOS and not iOS. Automatic mental typo filtering isn't always a good thing.

Which makes it a good point: In the worst case, cisco will probably buy QNX just to keep it going. Not the best of fates, but probably better than outright dying.Edited 2012-08-13 10:37 UTC Mon, 13 Aug 2012 10:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dnebdal) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?531438 http://www.osnews.com/thread?531438 Well, it's also the fault of the company that basically takes any name they like, cleans up only after the fact (like it was also with the iPhone IIRC)

And I imagine that, for codebase of such importance (used not only in a fairly crucial line of ~switches, also automotive usage or with... Canadian nuclear reactors), buying of QNX per se wouldn't even be required - the code is certainly in escrow, with arrangements made a long time ago for ownership transfer, were something to happen with its parent company. Fri, 17 Aug 2012 23:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zima) Comments