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A possible alternative: pester Blackberry with requests for opening the 32bit variant of QNX (crowfunding?), since they're likely moving to 64bit anyway. Very s
by squarefoot 7y ago
A possible alternative: pester Blackberry with requests for opening the 32bit variant of QNX (crowfunding?), since they're likely moving to 64bit anyway. Very small devices with RAM sizes well below the Gigabyte are the ones which would benefit the most from it.
- aidenn0 7y agoSurely they are still selling the 32 bit version to the embedded market?
- dddw 7y agoyep, lotta automotive and transport stuff.
- jacobush 7y agoThe ever elusive QNX. I remember being given a boot floppy of QNX for PC, it had a graphics environment, a shell and a web browser. On one floppy. Stable like Linux, small, graphical and fast like Amiga (actually smaller!) and could run circles around Windows 95 on off the shelf hardware. Alas, it was not to be.
- lizknope 7y agoYou can still get it here. http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html Demo video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_VlI6IBEJ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_VlI6IBEJ0
- nyolfen 7y agoi looked around a bit on that site and really enjoyed this: http://toastytech.com/guis/abuse.html http://toastytech.com/guis/abuse.html
- emayljames 7y agoOr go full Assembly OS (a tiny size and gui): http://menuetos.net http://menuetos.net
- squarefoot 7y agoThat would surely make it super fast and super tiny, but sadly also super non portable to different architectures like ARM and very hard to maintain or even develop for.
- PeCaN 7y agoto be honest writing x86 assembly is Not That Bad™ (personally I can't speak for ARM though) I wrote some simple silly applications for KolibriOS[0] a while back and it's relatively pleasant (I think a basic GUI window is less code than a Win32 application in C…) [0] A MenuetOS fork (which has diverged a fair bit by now): https://kolibrios.org/en/ https://kolibrios.org/en/