I think you must be mistaken. Perhaps you're thinking of another system?
I was in high school hanging out at the University of Waterloo when
Danny Dodge (??)came to pick up his lineprinter listings I happened to
be reading. It was the source code to what became QNX. He was
part of a 3 member team writing a real time kernel as an assigment
for a 3rd or 4th year real-time programming course. At the time
the target was a generic intel 80186 box. Most interesting was that
the cross development was done on a Honeywell Gecos mainframe...
I later acquired QNX 1.0 for the 8088 IBM PC, Nabu 1600 (8086) and
Cemcorp Icon (80186 bionic beaver, a machine put into every Ontario school)
I still have all these machines - QNX was a perfect match for <512K
mmu-less memory systems. The Nabu also has an add-on discrete mmu
which allowed it to run Xenix in 512 K... amazing for the time as it benched
close to the speed of a VAX even with miserably slow WD MFM drives.
Could you be thinking of OS-9 ? for the 6809 or OS-9000 ?
Regards, Heinz
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ethan Dicks" <ethan_dicks_at_yahoo.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 6:34 PM
Subject: QNX (was Re: building a PDP11 from the things you find at home)
>
> --- "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh_at_aracnet.com> wrote:
> > > QNX is a very cool operating system, which unfortunately (from my
> > >perspective) runs only on the Intel platform...
> >
> > Do some research, QNX runs on a *LOT* more than IA, and yes, it seems to
be
> > pretty cool.
>
> Agreed. I heard of QNX _years_ ago on the mc68k platform, long before
> I saw it for the first time (on a 486, running the air handlers and
> environmental controls at the science lab at McMurdo; they also use it
> on the research boats for data collection as well as environmental
> monitoring and control).
>
> -ethan
>
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Received on Fri Jul 27 2001 - 17:52:25 BST