1. Re: QNX-porting
I find all of the recent discussion about porting EU to another OS besides
Linux to be both remarkably energic and positive, and I applaud ALL
efforts. I am an old Amiga fan from 1984 but finally had to face reality
and gave it up to go over to the 86x platform; chosing EU to do my
commercial work in from that point on.
I would like to cast my 'vote' towards not discarding the opportunity to
some day run EU on QNX. There are many reasons for this, but my
particularly selfish rationale is that QNX is small, fast, and rock-solid,
something that Linux is unfortunately not (not to say that Linux is bad,
just to say that compared to QNX it is huge, slow, and flakey [in its
present form-- which changes from day-to-day]. My other reason for
promoting this OS is that it operates on MIPS type cpu's (RISC), and is
particularly well suited for the SPARC cpu envirnment. This means that it
can be made to operate as a Bolt-On OS for Sony Playstation2, Sega
Dreamcast, and no doubt the up and coming Nintendo Dolphin, all of these
being 128-bit machines. There is still plenty of time to do something like
this before the territory is all snapped up by Windows CE
(WinCrapEnvirnment) and Linux (WinHugeEnvirnment), to the detriment of all
programmers everywhere. The amount of machines these three manufacturers
intend to put out next year is in inself THREE times the market total for
all Pentium-based machine sales in the current year!
I know this sounds crazy, but it is all real, and it will happen. There is
plenty of intent and focus out there from manufacturers that plan to have
people operating computers that are no longer computers as we now know them.
Positve and negative feed back requested.
Norm
