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There's a bunch of nostalgia about what small meant to mean, so I'll leave some links to the QNX 1.44MB demo floppy: http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html ht

There's a bunch of nostalgia about what small meant to mean, so I'll leave some links to the QNX 1.44MB demo floppy: http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10483653 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10483653

jacquesm 4y ago
And under the hood that did a lot more than most OSs of the day. Or of today, for that matter.
marcodiego 4y ago
Although people usually cite the qnx demo int these threads, I'm much more impressed today this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28515025 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28515025
Keyframe 4y ago
I remember when it was actual. It was impressive then as well!
GavinAnderegg 4y ago
I was just about to post about this as well. I still don't know how I ended up with this disk, but got shipped to high school-aged me. I was blown away at the time!
sedatk 4y ago
I remember QNX floppy blowing my mind even back in the 90's. This was when Linux could load the kernel and the root fs at least with two floppies.
cubano 4y ago
QNX was/is simply amazing! Talk about an OS that should have utterly destroyed DOS and all other CLI-based OSs. I first encountered it at an oil-terminal company I worked at in the 80's and couldn't believe the features packed into such a small footprint. It's real-time event handling was top-notch, and it was stable as all-hell...in a sane world it would have dominated the market.
- mixmastamyk 4y ago
  DOS was on the way out by the mid 90s. Windows had all the software, other commercial OSs didn’t have a chance. Mac hung on and rebounded ~15 years later.
CharlesW 4y ago
> There's a bunch of nostalgia about what small meant to mean, so I'll leave some links to the QNX 1.44MB demo floppy: My first "real OS" experience was OS-9, which IIRC booted from a 400KB floppy. I believe Radio Shack sold it on a cartridge as well. https://microware.com/ https://microware.com/
postalrat 4y ago
https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=qnx https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=qnx

jacquesm 4y ago

And under the hood that did a lot more than most OSs of the day. Or of today, for that matter.

marcodiego 4y ago

Although people usually cite the qnx demo int these threads, I'm much more impressed today this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28515025 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28515025

Keyframe 4y ago

I remember when it was actual. It was impressive then as well!

GavinAnderegg 4y ago

I was just about to post about this as well. I still don't know how I ended up with this disk, but got shipped to high school-aged me. I was blown away at the time!

sedatk 4y ago

I remember QNX floppy blowing my mind even back in the 90's. This was when Linux could load the kernel and the root fs at least with two floppies.

cubano 4y ago

QNX was/is simply amazing! Talk about an OS that should have utterly destroyed DOS and all other CLI-based OSs. I first encountered it at an oil-terminal company I worked at in the 80's and couldn't believe the features packed into such a small footprint. It's real-time event handling was top-notch, and it was stable as all-hell...in a sane world it would have dominated the market.

mixmastamyk 4y ago
DOS was on the way out by the mid 90s. Windows had all the software, other commercial OSs didn’t have a chance. Mac hung on and rebounded ~15 years later.

CharlesW 4y ago

> There's a bunch of nostalgia about what small meant to mean, so I'll leave some links to the QNX 1.44MB demo floppy: My first "real OS" experience was OS-9, which IIRC booted from a 400KB floppy. I believe Radio Shack sold it on a cartridge as well. https://microware.com/ https://microware.com/

postalrat 4y ago

https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=qnx https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=qnx