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For comparison, the QNX Neutrino operating system fits (no, used to fit: I last played with it ~15 years ago) on a 1.44mb floppy disk, which is a bit bigger, bu
by throwawayqnx 10y ago
For comparison, the QNX Neutrino operating system fits (no, used to fit: I last played with it ~15 years ago) on a 1.44mb floppy disk, which is a bit bigger, but also contained a decent browser for the time as well as a media player and other goodies.
http://www.operating-system.org/betriebssystem/_english/bs-qnx.htm http://www.operating-system.org/betriebssystem/_english/bs-q...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNX
- nickpsecurity 10y agoAlso safety and robustness of a cutting-edge, real-time microkernel.
- fouc 10y agoI've always wondered why they haven't open-sourced any of it, even a super old version. The photon gui stuff was exciting.
- david-given 10y agoThey released some of it under a look-but-don't-touch license for a while, in an attempt to build a community, and you could get a free license for the desktop version of QNX (with all the developer tools in it). I think I still have a CD somewhere. It worked pretty well. It may even be still available, but after digging up my old Foundry27 username and password (which, surprisingly, still works), their download site is an impossible trainwreck and I was unable to find it any more. The demo floppy, by the way, is here: http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html Requires a 386 and 8MB of RAM.