Comment by ksaj

I consider myself really lucky. Besides the really simple OS's like found on Commodore Vic 20, 64, PET and CBM, QNX is the first full fledged OS I learned on. I'm still a Unix style evangelist to this day. Students one year younger than me learned on Windows, and they didn't cover nearly the amount of ground that my year did.

We had QNX running on a system called an ICON, which had lots of bells and whistles that made using them quite fun. It came with all the languages (the year-after students only learned BASIC and Turing), and had a voice synthesizer. Oh, and way better graphics - you could draw something in QPaint or Logo, and then export it as a header file to use in your C, Pascal, etc programs. We used that functionality for making splash screens for our assignments, even though that wasn't an actual requirement.