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Remember the QNX demo floppy?
by jedisct1 2y ago
Remember the QNX demo floppy?
- seanparsons 2y agoYup, that felt incredible even at the time, let alone now.
- nappy-doo 2y agoI recreated that in grad school, also using QNX. We set it up to run a paging (POCSAG) system that you could put the floppy into any computer, hook up a DSP board and modulator, reboot the machine and you'd have a paging system. My advisor showed it to Andrew Viterbi, and got us grant. When I went to recreate it, I contacted QNX and asked if I could speak to the guy who did the work, and he had died the year before. So, I just took apart his floppy, and figured out how he did it. The things you can do when you invest your time 100% in something.
- trollerator23 2y agoWhat's this? Now I want to know.