Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 09:13:19 02/08/02
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On February 08, 2002 at 09:01:28, Mike Hood wrote: >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? > >QNX is a real-time operating system. It was originally based on Unix, but, >unlike Linux, it made no attempt to remain compatible. The main advantages of >QNX over Linux is that the o/s kernel is configurable to a much greater extent; >they call it a "micro-kernel", and it can fit into a few kilobytes of memory. >QNX has become very popular as an embedded operating system for use in >television sets and cash registers. > >Although QNX is Unix-ish enough for code to be ported without too much effort, >programs that are designed as Unix applications miss out on the full power of >the operating system. QNX is a message-driven operating system -- right down to >the kernel -- and using messages to synchronize tasks means much better >performance than relying on semaphores, etc. > >In a word... QNX is a superior alternative to Linux, but it isn't 100% >Unix-compatible, and as far as I knew it wasn't free up to a few months ago. But what does it have to do with Windows and how can you run something like Fritz in it??
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