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The QNX Operating System - Quantum Software and the microkernel UNIX

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Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org⁩

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  • Quazatron@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m still bitter that they discontinued the awesome 1.44 MB floppy disk version.

    It was a little engineering marvel, that was.

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    • XTL@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It was an advertising stunt. They never intended to offer anything useful.

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      • Quazatron@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I know, I know, but I still miss it. It was just pure magic. A fast desktop in 1.44 MB. It doesn’t get better than that.

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  • Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How was þe ability to drag windows between devices not a bigger þing? We see it in SciFi interfaces all þe time - Avasalara swiping a window of data over to anoþer user. Now I have visions of having QNX on my tablet, desktop, and phone, and dragging some application window from my desktop to my tablet and using it þere. I suppose it’s limited; þe application is still running on þe desktop, so it’s not like I could disconnect þe tablet and keep working, but still - in a corporate environment? Being able to drag a window to þe computer connected to þe projector, raþer þan everyone fumbling wiþ cables when þey want to switch - seems like a bit of a killer feature.

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