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Subject: Re: Fritz on QNX hits Micro$oft where they live

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 13:00:39 02/07/02

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On February 07, 2002 at 15:12:55, Roy Eassa wrote:

>On February 07, 2002 at 15:06:46, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>On February 07, 2002 at 14:14:27, Sergei Smith wrote:
>>
>>>Rake in the rhino by doing without XP because QNX that already supported Opera
>>>6.0 now apparently also supports Fritz 7 :
>>>
>>>http://members.sitegadgets.com/sirdream/board/851.html
>>>
>>>QNX is indeed a free realtime operating system.
>>>I once installed it but at that time I did not think of running Fritz in it.
>>>Any ideas about playing strength of other chess programs on QNX ?
>>
>>Are you kidding?  QNX?
>>
>>Yea, should run like a champ on that.
>
>
>Slater,
>
>I'm skeptical too, but I can't find out very much relevant info on QNX from the
>web.  What can you tell us about it?

It's a "realtime" Linux.

It runs like crap.  (Compared to a RH Linux.)

http://www.qnx.com

It was used as the OS for those home computers that only ran the internet.
Can't really remember the name of them though.  (They were that popular.)

About all I know.



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