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Can confirm. Came in expecting the other Photon MicroGUI ("now there's a name I've not heard in a long time"), was surprised/disappointed. Man QNX+Photon made f
by asark 7y ago
Can confirm. Came in expecting the other Photon MicroGUI ("now there's a name I've not heard in a long time"), was surprised/disappointed. Man QNX+Photon made for a nice GUI operating environment. Rivaled only by BeOS on my "GUI environments/systems I wish had made a bigger splash" scale.
- octetta 7y agoTotally agree with you. While I've been away from QNX for a long time, I did enjoy this API and system design. When I saw it go EOL, I made an appeal for them to open source it. Never heard a peep.
- nineteen999 7y agoQNX is EOL? Really? The last release was only in 2017. I hadn't heard this was happening and I can't seem to find any reference to it.
- nobleach 7y agoI recall that QNX/Photon floppy disk in the late 90s. The entire OS and a GUI on a single floppy!!! (And it didn't look like GeOS or Windows 1)
- morganvachon 7y ago> Rivaled only by BeOS Those were the days! I had BeOS as my only OS for over a year until it became clear that Palm wasn't going to continue supporting and updating it. It wasn't long after that I got into QNX, initially because of my interest in embedded systems, but after running Photon on a test machine I fell in love with it almost as much as I loved BeOS.