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That famous QNX boot disk was the first thing I thought of when reading the title as well.
by anyfoo 10mo ago
That famous QNX boot disk was the first thing I thought of when reading the title as well.
- taylodl 10mo agoMe too! And the GUI was only a 40KB distribution and was waaaaaay better than Windows 3.0!
- jacquesm 10mo agoAnd incredibly responsive compared to the operatings systems of even today. Imagine that: 30 years of progress to end up behind where we were. Human input should always run at the highest priority in the system, not the lowest.
- M95D 10mo agoThat ended with Win9x. It was the last OS where the mouse and keyboard inputs were processed as hardware interrupts.