Back when I toiled in trenches as an embedded systems developer, I always dreamed of being able to use a "big, proper" OS like QNX instead of whatever clumsy, b

Back when I toiled in trenches as an embedded systems developer, I always dreamed of being able to use a "big, proper" OS like QNX instead of whatever clumsy, barely-better-than-bare-metal RTOS I was using at the time. I remember QNX always having a decent presence at the embedded systems conference. Instead of going unix-ish and using QNX we eventually went windows-ish and used Phar Lap ETS, which was quite nice and civilized.