The Amiga fans are known to be very faithful and commited to their platform and not at all reluctant to pay large amounts of money to keep their system up-to-date. Note that the article avoids to answer the question whether this is going to be the next AmigaOS or something different, it just suggests that this is "something for the Amiga community".įace it, there will be no generous support from companies with established products (and niche markets) to revive the Amiga scene, they're after your money while trying to minimize the necessary investments. patch.READMEĪnd QNX kernel APIs implemented as a Linux kernel module here: Īlternatively a shared-memory implementation of Send()/Receive()/Reply() can be found here:Īs you correctly observed, this is mostly a marketing ploy to get some die-hard Amiga fans to the QNX platform. If you are looking to switch to Linux you might be interested in a QNX scheduler for Linux here: 1. If you're selling thousands of units your price drops to $50 and less. Yes, development licenses aren't cheap but your runtime licensing is based on your volume. This lowly 400Mhz Pentium II does a full process-to-process context switch in less than 500nS (yes, nanoseconds). Soon it will be QNX5 (Maybe Amiga OS5 _is_ QNX5? :)Īnd in terms of raw speed and determinism it's hard to beat. Neutrino gets more QNX4 features everyday. Kaffe has also been ported by different people. It's got full POSIX threads and a couple of Java VMs now. I ported Samba in a couple of hours and I think Apache just compiles and links these days. With Watcom 10.6 and the unix lib PD stuff from the 'net ports pretty easily. What is it you hate about it? QNX4 has got full POSIX APIs, plus quite a few BSD and SysV libs, ANSI C/C++. Shape the new AMIGA markets if they just take the time to think about it.Īnyway i hope thats helped clear up some stuff for you readers. That there`s a very good chance they could help Perhaps some serious *nix Developers might see To repeat, QSSL still have QNX4 for the currentĮmbeded markets, Nto version 2 Beta is shipping now to interested Developers, ICOA/TAC is getting ready to help said Developers that Knock at its door. What the underlying Photon MC can do NOT what the The screenshot`s are mearly an indication as to The ICOA in colaberation with Team AMIGA CentralĪre at this time in talks with QSSL and AMIGA,incĪs to how best serve both the Classic communityĭeveloper`s and the upcomeing AmiQNX markets.Īs for the look of the screen shots, please try to remember that QSSL are primarilly Intel basedįor the Embeded Markets and it will be upto DocĪllan and team to make a personality (remember that option ?) that better suits the current and Some acurate info, here`s something you might like Seeing as many readers seem to be in need of Now in Beta release to the select QSSL 3rd partys,Īnd as you all know now its just shifted up a gearĪnd invited the AMIGA Developer community too The QSSL teams to create the final Nto Version2 QSSL are as i say in PARTNERSHIP not mearlyĪMIGA,inc are takeing the Nto and working with It seems that many slashDOT readers are way Software that's released through a Free license is used and reused healthily, and spawns growth in the community software that's released proprietarily stagnates, and dies off if it's not able to compete. The question here is not whether it's free as in "free beer", but whether it's Free as in "free speech" (which does bring up the point of whether QSSL has the right to severely restrict the use of their software through licenses and to sell those at arbitrarily high prices). I personally could care less whether QNX lives or dies it's good software, but so is a lot of stuff that the Free Software community writes (and we're many more than the QNX devel community). This was intended not as a threat, but as a warning. If anything, it's the software licenses the QNX people like so much that are communist in nature see the GNU philosophy documents. or perhaps you are just a Coward): Free Software != Communism. Apparently, you're the only one in the Slashdot community who hasn't received the memo (maybe you're new here, which may explain your Anonymousness. Instead, I will tell you what is wrong with your argument, as below. While at another time my answer to this comment would probably look a lot like the first one, today I feel nice enough not to simply tell you to keep your poor imitation of sarcasm to yourself.
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