Peg II, G4 situation, and QNX port

[greenboy]

I checked into the thread because I saw QNX. I'm stoked about getting to see QNX on the Pegasos. I've talked to Dan Dodge a few times recently, introduced him to BBRV and Genesi, and talked about how to get this rolling.

QNX as a company and as an OS is phenomenal and I'm pleased that this is happening! This will certainly be good for QNX-based companies and OEMs because it opens up the selection of PPC-based boards to them - and for Genesi because some of those companies and developers and OEMs who use QNX for their enterprises and products are REALLY connected and involved in large and interesting work. Embedded, industrial, aerospace, medical, telephony, mobile tech, connectivity ... should be cool for developers too : }

Sorry I didn't remember to mention all that to you, Gary. Oops.

[greenboy]

Ah, QNX has *lots* of apps - but most of them are only seen onsite at various facilities, or in devices all over the place, or carrying network traffic  ; }

That makes them a good target for developers.

[greenboy]

It's all software, and it's all development. Some guys like writing for and designing underwater robots that circle around the north pole for thousands of kilometers mapping the sea floor and taking samples - and then surfacing every so often to fire off packets of data to the nearest satellite. They like bringing science fiction into reality, and get a kick out of seeing things like that running for year after year with maybe an occasional remote software update or driver replacement, and no fatal crashes and barely an iota of downtime.

Go figure ; }