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> Years ago there was a single-floppy QNX demo disk: you booted from this and you got a basic desktop with dialup modem support and a web browser. SINGLE FLOPPY
by miles 11y ago
> Years ago there was a single-floppy QNX demo disk: you booted from this and you got a basic desktop with dialup modem support and a web browser. SINGLE FLOPPY.
Dan Hildebrand's original announcement on comp.os.linux.development.system back in 1997: http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-chat&m=103030933111004 http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-chat&m=103030933111004
Archived homepage of the QNX Demo Disk: http://web.archive.org/web/20011019174050/www.qnx.com/demodisk/ http://web.archive.org/web/20011019174050/www.qnx.com/demodi...
including "How we did it":
http://web.archive.org/web/20011106140711/http://www.qnx.com/demodisk/how.html http://web.archive.org/web/20011106140711/http://www.qnx.com...
and "What people are saying" (to give folks today an idea of the excitement around a 1.44MB GUI OS with networking and Japanese support back in the 90s):
http://web.archive.org/web/20011106141359/http://www.qnx.com/demodisk/quotes.html http://web.archive.org/web/20011106141359/http://www.qnx.com...
Download links and screenshots:
http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-chat&m=103030933111004 http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-chat&m=103030933111004
- agumonkey 11y agoAnd a very nice paper by its wonderful last author https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~voelker/cse221/papers/qnx-paper92.pdf https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~voelker/cse221/papers/qnx-paper92.p...