RE: [MLUG] Opera is now free (as in beer) (fwd)

["James Brockman" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

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Subject: Re: [MLUG] Opera is now free (as in beer) (fwd)

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, James Brockman wrote:

> "Today QNX is used for everything from medical instrumentation to
> nuclear reactor monitoring, to traffic light control, to brewing beer. 
> You probably use QNX several times a day without being aware of it."

>> Interesting.  I did use some traffic lights last night, so they may be 
>> right.  It is interesting that I have never heard of it before, that I
can 
>> really, in all my years using UNIX systems and reading MLUG lists.  QNX 
>> is proprietary, so I guess my goal is that QNX be replaced by Linux.

The QNX people have been very low-key players over the years, very much in
the background.  They work directly with hardware designers rather than
users - that's the nature of your business when your bread and butter is to
supply an OS for say, a CAT scan machine rather than a PC.  

It will be interesting to see if Linux RTOS distros can catch up, or if QNX
can manage to stay ahead thru innovation.  I won't place any bets either
way, myself.

James
  



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