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Nice work! Very tempted to try it out on a spare machine. Sure brings back memories of the fully functional QNX desktop that fit on a single 1.44MB floppy! [0]

Nice work! Very tempted to try it out on a spare machine. Sure brings back memories of the fully functional QNX desktop that fit on a single 1.44MB floppy! [0] Tangent: It's a shame that Blackberry hasn't captured more of mobile phone market with the QNX based BB OS10 - I got myself a BlackBerry Passport couple months ago and find it is a great daily driver for my needs. Square screen (1400x1400) and physical keyboard ftw. It's got a rather enjoyable development experience too. Momentics IDE let's you write QML/JavaScript apps that automatically refresh running instance on phone after every save, much like one would expect nowadays with React. Wrote a simple DI.fm Radio Streaming app[1] over a course of few nights - I haven't had that much fun scratching-own-itch and learning new platforms since playing with Delphi almost two decades ago... [0] http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html [1] https://github.com/slobo/BlackBerry-10-Digitally-Imported https://github.com/slobo/BlackBerry-10-Digitally-Imported

userbinator 9y ago
Very unusual that it apparently has an HTML3.2 browser... with JavaScript! Another very small yet very full-featured OS is MenuetOS: http://menuetos.net/ http://menuetos.net/
josh64 9y ago
I loved BB10 and the Hub. It was my favourite smartphone OS by far. That being said, I hated momentics!
- protomyth 9y ago
  The Passport's keyboard was a poor layout but BB10 usage of it was amazing for editing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNVT95S6_eE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNVT95S6_eE
digi_owl 9y ago
When not even MS could muscle their way back in after burning their PocketPC bridge, BB didn't stand much of a chance.
- bluejekyll 9y ago
  Blackberry owned the market though. They were the corporate smart phone. They lost it all... Has anyone written about what blackberry actually tried to do to prevent losing to Apple? My memory is that they basically were convinced there was no way they could lose their marketshare, so effectively just watched as they lost everything.
  - protomyth 9y ago
    "Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry" by Jacquie McNish & Sean Silcoff Scandal distracting them, playing by the old bandwidth rules too long, and Verizon wanting an iPhone killer (which is different from RIM/Blackberry's focus) were the lessons I read. Remember, they hit their max market cap a year after the iPhone.

userbinator 9y ago

Very unusual that it apparently has an HTML3.2 browser... with JavaScript! Another very small yet very full-featured OS is MenuetOS: http://menuetos.net/ http://menuetos.net/

josh64 9y ago

I loved BB10 and the Hub. It was my favourite smartphone OS by far. That being said, I hated momentics!

protomyth 9y ago
The Passport's keyboard was a poor layout but BB10 usage of it was amazing for editing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNVT95S6_eE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNVT95S6_eE

digi_owl 9y ago

When not even MS could muscle their way back in after burning their PocketPC bridge, BB didn't stand much of a chance.

bluejekyll 9y ago
Blackberry owned the market though. They were the corporate smart phone. They lost it all... Has anyone written about what blackberry actually tried to do to prevent losing to Apple? My memory is that they basically were convinced there was no way they could lose their marketshare, so effectively just watched as they lost everything.
- protomyth 9y ago
  "Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry" by Jacquie McNish & Sean Silcoff Scandal distracting them, playing by the old bandwidth rules too long, and Verizon wanting an iPhone killer (which is different from RIM/Blackberry's focus) were the lessons I read. Remember, they hit their max market cap a year after the iPhone.