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Re: Research In Motion Buys QNX Software
« on: April 10, 2010, 02:15:26 PM »
It was pretty clever actually, with a realtime micro-kernel it really had potential.  The idea was to build a new AmigaOS on top of QNX, sort of like OS X did on top of BSD.  Except that BSD is monolithic.  I think it might have give AmigaOS a future instead of just being a jazzed up fossil like it ended up....
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Re: Research In Motion Buys QNX Software
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2010, 04:42:12 PM »
In the end it doesn't matter, nobody outside the retro world even knows what a floppy is anymore.  They were a bad design, incredibly small storage, mechanical and prone to failure, I don't miss them in the least.

Nowadays you can boot up a fully functional OS (Linux, OS X, Windows 7) off of a pocket flash drive....
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