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From: jnemeth@cue.bc.ca (John Nemeth)
Subject: Re: Special Sale On QNX!
Message-ID: <1994Sep30.195319.21947@softwords.bc.ca>
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Date: Fri, 30 Sep 94 19:53:19 GMT
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In article <365fjk$49g$1@usenet.pa.dec.com> paik@mlo.dec.com (Samuel S. Paik) writes:
>$200 for a well-supported, fast, reliable, distributed, microkernel-based,
>message-passing, UNIX system? Fine, send me information on when you will
QNX is not UNIX by a long shot, I've used it. It may be good in
its niche, but as a general purpose OS it sucks. It has a wimpy shell
with a useless scripting language, commands tend to be wimpy and
arguments are completely inconsistent (i.e. no argument convention at
all), devices are referenced by the port on the machine, which is
referred to by node number, to which they are attached (i.e. no
logical names), etc.
--
John Nemeth jnemeth@cue.bc.ca
System Administrator
Computer Using Educators of B.C. Opinions are my own.