Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!unisoft!gethen!isaac From: isaac@gethen.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: QNX anyone? Summary: The Message for QNX Message-ID: <962@gethen.UUCP> Date: 26 Jun 88 21:12:55 GMT References: <22273@tis.llnl.gov> <4632@mnetor.UUCP> Organization: There's Unix there in Oakland Lines: 10 In article <4632@mnetor.UUCP>, frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick) writes: >[The QNX C compiler ] only > builds small-model tasks, which isn't so terrible if you take advantage of > the message-passing to build lots of small, co-operating tasks. That strikes me as a good way to develop programs, but which few programmers are likely to understand. Most PC programmers *love* the complicated addressing scheme in MS C and its ilk. Perhaps Quantum would increase the market for QNXif they devoted some effort to deprogramming (forgive the pun) all those DOSiers who think complexity is power.