OpenEuphoria

Re: QNX Euphoria?

• Posted by Jason Gade <jgade at PCEZ.COM> Jul 09, 1999
• 507 views

Amiga used 880k Double-density diskettes.  QNX actually runs on a lot of
processors, but the Amiga development system runs on x86.  The new Amiga is
supposed to have an as-yet to be disclosed processor *not* x86.

Pretty cool, actually.

-----Original Message-----
From: Warbles <warbler at IHUG.CO.NZ>
To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Date: Friday, July 09, 1999 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: QNX Euphoria?


>At 03:47 PM 7/9/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>Here's a chance for Euphoria to be *really* be on the bleeding edge.
>>
>>Yesterday, QNX announced that it would soon be releasing a new operating
>>system, built over the last seven months in alliance with Amiga. Don't let
>>the 'Amiga' throw you - the operating system runs on x86 machines. Screen
>>shots of the operating system are included, and it looks like a *very*
cool
>>mix of QNX, the BeOS and iMac. See:
>>
>>        http://www.qnx.com/amiga/
>
>I realise I've not had enough experience at all to know quite where my
>standing should be on this, plus other facts etc, but I always liked
>Workbench for the Amiga, and never had any problems with it.. the best part
>I think is that it fit onto a 740k floppy disk (I think, I can't remember
>using double-sided ones, but it was quite awhile ago) and didn't ever
decide
>just to stop working like other certain OS's which I won't mention.. :)
>
>J.
>