> ----- 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
> 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
He's not mistaken, while the latest version(s) don't look to still support
68k processors, it does support a LOT of different CPU's.
http://qdn.qnx.com/support/hardware/platform/processors.html
Zane
Received on Fri Jul 27 2001 - 18:13:32 BST