{"id":97908,"date":"2025-08-10T11:55:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T15:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=fc9ef298b5330d2c9d50a50ca428aa74"},"modified":"2025-08-10T11:55:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T15:55:54","slug":"qnx-the-incredible-1-44m-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=97908","title":{"rendered":"QNX: The Incredible 1.44M Demo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/QNX_incredible_1.44m_demo_v4.0\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: That demo disk really was one of the niftiest artifacts ever shipped. \nA modern looking GUI and a network stack and everything on a floppy, which pretty much \"Just worked.\" \n\nQNX itself is both historically interesting and widely used in embedded things where most people probably don't realize that's what they're interacting with; it's fast, it's UNIX-like enough to be easy to develop for, good RT features while maintaining those UNIX-like semantics where it can, customizable, and apparently the license terms are reasonable.  Certainly getting squeezed from above by Linux's steadily-less-annoying RT features, and from below by Zephyr lately, but still a reasonable choice.<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=44856046\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=97908\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}