Bradford Morgan White has published an excellent retrospective of QNX, the realtime microkernel operating system focused on embedded use cases. The final paragraph made me sad, though. QNX is a fascinating operating system. It was extremely well designed from the start, and while it has been rewritten, the core ideas that allowed it survive for 45 years persist to this day. While I am sad that Photon was deprecated, the reasoning is sound. Most vendors using QNX either do not require a GUI, o...| OSnews
Software is never a temporary feature, especially in the fast-moving world of embedded systems. In industries like automotive, software is at the core of the product’s function, but time and time again, companies treat it like a short-term asset.| www.codethink.co.uk
Codethink dives into the Linux vs. QNX debate—focusing on architecture, performance, scalability, and long-term production viability.| www.codethink.co.uk
I was overjoyed to learn of a Burroughs ICON that a friend had that was not in working condition but was offered to me… and I jumped on it! It’s one of those Canadian computers (Ontario to be specific) that I had never experienced but had heard about. The two main issues were memory issues and an issue with the monitor. I have since repaired the memory issue (one bad 4164 memory chip) but I have not been successful with fixing the monitor yet. Thankfully the monitor is a standard ...| VintageComputer.ca
