[TriLUG] Ford Drops Windows for their Sync System

[William Sutton]

Another story about QNX...

Several years ago (2001-2003) I worked for what is now McClatchy 
Interactive (at the time, Nando Media).  We had a QNX to pull down the AP 
newswire feed in real time and upload it to a processing location on the 
network.  Two of our sysadmins had a conversation about the QNX:

jr admin:  Does it have <software package foo>?
sr admin:  No.  It's a QNX.
jr admin:  Does it have <software package bar>?
sr admin:  No.  It's a QNX.
jr admin:  Does it have vi?
sr admin:  Of course.  It's a UNIX.

William Sutton

On Tue, 25 Feb 2014, Brian McCullough wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 10:38:03AM -0800, John Vaughters wrote:
>> "QNX has done a better job of integrating compatibility with other operating systems such as those from Apple, Google and included emerging Internet standards" ~ Ford Quote
>
> Just thought that I would mention that I used QNX on a '286 machine long
> before Linux existed, and before I switched.
>
> On that hardware, I was able to do multi-user, multi-tasking, back when
> DOS and other "PC" operating systems sat around waiting for me to type
> the next character.
>
>
> Unfortunately, for my purposes, the people at QNX were not interested in
> the General Purpose computing market, but wanted to concentrate on the
> Industrial and similar markets.
>
> When Linux appeared, in its tall stack of floppies, I purchased a '386 and switched.
>
>
>
> Brian
>
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