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Comment by sedatk

12 hours ago

It was mind blowing at the time because Linux required at least 4-5 floppies to set up a text-only base system while QNX ran live from just a single 1.44MB.

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fouc  8 hours ago

Photon microGUI was included in that, and it blew my mind that you could literally kill and restart Photon without disturbing any of the GUI apps that were still running.

They also mailed a manual along with the demo disk, and I was amazed that QNX had built-in network bonding, amongst lots of other neat features. At the the time I was using Slackware & the linux kernel version was still 1.x, I don't think bonding came to linux until 2.x?

viraptor  8 hours ago

When was that? You can still run from a single floppy https://github.com/Steve3184/floppinux and some form of that was available for ages.

  • fouc  8 hours ago

    He meant with X & web browser and so on. The QNX disk had gui + browser and a few other gui apps.

    • sedatk  8 hours ago

      No I meant the base system. A system with X would take at least 20 floppies or so with Slackware 3. The whole setup was 80 floppies in total.

      I’m sure it’s better now, it wasn’t so when QNX had come out.