There were rumours of Amiga doing a QNX based OS after demise of Commodore. I wrote an email to QNX to ask what they were about and they mailed this to my home in Turkey - imagine my surprise, my first original software (beyond Amiga Workbench disks) was QNX!
This was such a cool demo back then. There were many systems that could boot from a floppy, of course, but booting into a GUI with TCP/IP stack showing a real internet browser was really something!
I got that floppy with some magazine. It was incredible and magic. I cry when some one application update pulls gigabytes over the line for some changes I don't give a crap about and don't notice but 'you have to update to continue' (yes, it's xcode).
https://www.trollaxor.com/2005/06/how-qnx-failed-amiga.html
Previously:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33123697
226 points by lproven on Oct 7, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 151 comments