What (who) is QNX - definition
UNIX-LIKE, REAL-TIME, EMBEDDED OPERATING SYSTEM
QnX; QNX 4; QNX4; Transparent Distributed Processing; Qnx; Photon GUI; Qnx neutrino; QNX Neutrino; QNX Software Systems; Quantum Software Systems; QNX Photon; QNX kernel
QNX
<operating system> A realtime, network distributed,
POSIX-certified, microkernel, multi-user, multitasking,
ROMable, fault-tolerant, embeddable operating system
that supports TCP/IP, NFS, FTP, the X Window System,
Microsoft Windows as a guest process, Ethernet, {Token
Ring}, Arcnet and Watcom ANSI C/C++. Support for
Pentium, 486, 386, 286, 80x87. Developed and
distributed by QNX Software Systems, Ltd.
Latest version: 6.1, as of 2001-09-02.
QNX Home (http://qnx.com/).
OpenQNX: The QNX community portal (http://openqnx.com).
qnx/qnx-paper.ps.Z">Papers (ftp://ftp.cse.ucsc.edu/pub/qnx/qnx-paper.ps.Z).
(128.114.134.19).
Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.os.qnx.
E-mail: <info@qnx.com>.
(2003-07-27)
Gordon Bell (QNX)
CO-CREATOR OF THE QNX REALTIME OPERATING SYSTEM
Gordon Bell is a Canadian software developer and entrepreneur. He is one of the co-creators of the QNX microkernel real-time operating system.
Wikipedia
QNX
QNX ( or ) is a commercial Unix-like real-time operating system, aimed primarily at the embedded systems market. QNX was one of the first commercially successful microkernel operating systems.
The product was originally developed in the early 1980s by Canadian company Quantum Software Systems, later renamed QNX Software Systems.
As of 2022, it is used in a variety of devices including cars, medical devices, program logic controllers, robots, trains, and more.
