From: alaric AT abwillms DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Alaric B. Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Porting real-time, multiprocess, distrib. OS Kernel to djgpp?
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 22:46:44 GMT
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Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph> wrote:
>Yes, that may be so.. :)
>I have all the technical documentation for QNX and it is a very impressive
>achievement; it even has an OpenLook-like GUI which can run in less than
>1meg of RAM, it's POSIX-compliant, and can run X Windows.

That's how an OS should be!

>But: and this is a very large "but"...
>Does anyone know the COST of QNX? it's in the several-hundreds of US$
>range. Now if all you're concerned about is saving $$$ by saving memory,
>QNX, even though it has a very small memory footprint, is a net loss.

Precisely. Commercialism killing something decent. Better than
commercialism pushing crap, though, like Microsoft!

>Sure, I need 16MB to run Linux decently with X Windows, true. But how much
>does 16MB of RAM cost? around US$ 100 the last time I checked. So, it's
>cheaper to just buy tons of memory than scrounge around for little scraps
>with a small OS.

Running QNX in that 16Mb would be pleasant indeed, tho!


ABW



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