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| Comment 1 | Ben Yoris | | 22-Feb-2000 23:00 GMT |
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| Greenboy interview, part 4 : Comment 2 of 12 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Bob Washburne on 22-Feb-2000 23:00 GMT | OK, let me get this straight.
-) QNX is a real-time kernel company which sells kernels for embedded systems.
Neat. Real-time embedded is cool. Not much fun, but deffinately cool.
-) QNX wanted to expand its user base, so they have been developing a desktop
GUI to bring real-time to the masses. Great. The spreading of new technology
is always a good thing (and there are just enough exceptions to prove this rule).
-) AFTER QNX was well into the developement of their desk-top system they were
approached by Gatemiga as the possible replacement for exec for the Amiga NG.
While this wasn't a "bad" idea - video and animation definately benefit from
hard real-time - there were some significant shortcoming, such as driver support.
QNX thought this was great - they now had a ready-made market for THEIR system.
And marketing was/is a major problem with popularizing real-time.
-) BEFORE QNX did anything Amiga-specific Gatemiga pulled out and decided Linux
was the way to go. And that was probably the correct decision - Linux already
had the pieces QNX was missing and is well into the real-time developement.
But what a blow to QNX. Their easy market was being stripped from them.
-) So QNX decided to just continue with what they were doing, which was to
simply port THEIR system to the Amiga hardware. And since their system was
designed to port to ANY computer, this was an insignificant task.
So my question is: Just what does any of this have to do with the Amiga?
Or the AmigaNG?
Other OS's have been ported to the Amiga hardware, but none of these have been
called the AmigaNG or "hope of the future".
Reading the interview left me with three conclusions:
1) greenboy is haveing a lot of fun.
2) The QNX system is really neat.
3) None of this has anything to do with the Amiga or AmigaNG.
CK, maybe you should add one more catagory for "Other OS's" for stories such as
this, for Linux on Amiga hardware, etc.
Bob W. |
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