Thanks for the clarification Darkstar. When Harman International Industries bought QNX I figured that was pretty much the end of it. I know they continued to sell products but it never became a mass market OS. I first saw it doing amazing graphics back when the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center first opened. They were selling QNX for thousands of dollars per copy when B.G. was doing everything he could to put DOS on every Intel computer sold.
Back then Bill the geek wasn’t the stereotyped Evil Genius… I just wish others had, had some of his vision. Now they can hardly compete giving it away.
QNX showed how simplicity is power.
Ubuntu Linux is not likely to fix bug one in my lifetime.
I had high hopes for QNX when I first saw it as a kid in NY. But they weren’t interested in the mass market. Now it’s owned by some car company.
Actually RIM (the maker of BackBerry phones) owns QNX.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/14/rim_buys_qnx/
Thanks for the clarification Darkstar. When Harman International Industries bought QNX I figured that was pretty much the end of it. I know they continued to sell products but it never became a mass market OS. I first saw it doing amazing graphics back when the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center first opened. They were selling QNX for thousands of dollars per copy when B.G. was doing everything he could to put DOS on every Intel computer sold.
Back then Bill the geek wasn’t the stereotyped Evil Genius… I just wish others had, had some of his vision. Now they can hardly compete giving it away.
QNX showed how simplicity is power.
Ubuntu Linux is not likely to fix bug one in my lifetime.