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Re: QNX questions...
« on: December 01, 2003, 04:05:01 AM »
QNX is nice in terms of performance and design, but...

The available range of software is very limited, and ports tend to lag behind most other versions. Driver support tends to be rather limited too (a situation which gets worse if you want more than the generic functions available to various devices).

QNX would make a decent desktop system if QSSL saw that as a priority and so pumped some more resources into it. However, the QNX RTOS is really intended as a developer's system to support development of applications for the QNX core business (embedded systems etc.). As such, you won't get the kind of features you will find on other systems, like fully featured 3D drivers, support for all sorts of peripherals, built-in component drivers etc.

For me, QNX never made it past the "cute but not very useful" barrier, which is a shame.
Bill Hoggett