Comment by brynet

I used ICONs in school growing up in Ontario, Canada, they were so cool. It was a sad day when Windows PCs replaced them in the computer lab.

All but a few of these computers were destroyed by the ministry of education. And without the LEXICON server that accompanied them, they're basically useless.

For a bit of fun, I ran the DOOM shareware demo using the official QNX4 port on a 486SX with 8M of ram.

https://brynet.ca/video-qnxdoom.html

I picked up QNX6 again as a hobbyist later in life... until self-hosted QNX was killed, no bootable .ISOs after 6.5. Then they killed the hobbyist license, killed the Photon desktop GUI, dropped any native toolchain support in place of a Windows/Linux-hosted IDE. Porting software became difficult, pkgsrc no longer maintained.

They are completely noncommittal as a company, nothing short of actually open-sourcing it under the MIT/BSD would convince me to use it again.. and not another source-available effort that they inevitably rug pull again.

https://www.osnews.com/story/23565/qnx6-is-closed-source-onc...