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From: tang@Shasta.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Looking for info on QNX
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Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 14:12:41 EDT
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> A friend of mine is having trouble with a program running at the Stanford
> Medical Center. She is not 'computer savey', so the description of what
> she has is a little hazey, but from what I can glean from her sounds like
> she has a Compaq, running MS-DOS.
> 
> The program was written by a guy in San Diego who isn't interested in supporting
> the program any more, and suggests that she get someone familiar with the
> "QNX" language.
> 
> Has anyone heard of QNX? Is there really such a language, or is this some kind
> of joke?
> 
> If someone can let me know what other language this compares to, I'd appreciate
> it. Then I can decide if it would do any good for me to get involved.
> 
> Thanks, as always, in advance.
> 
> Brad Foss
> 
> 3comvax!desteng!bfoss

QNX is not a language.  It is an multi-user, multi-tasking operating system.
It is rather unix-like, but it is *NOT* unix.  It's shell is much much
less powerful than the unix sh or csh.  However, it is very impressive
multi-user multi-tasking OS for a small machine like the IBMPC.  A C compiler
and an 8086/186/286 assembler are come standard with the package.  Other
languages like fortran and basic are available too, I guess.  The OS is
message-based.  QNX 2.0 supports networking.

tang
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