QNX

[rweidman at watson.chemical.missouri.edu]

Am I missing something in this thread or is cost not a consideration?
Randy

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, alvin wrote:

> Alan Grimes wrote:
> > 
> > I've recieved some intel that indicates that not only is the QNX
> > operating system vastly superior to linux in almost every way, it also
> > directly supports computational clusters! =)
> 
> unless QNX has managed to get a large ammount of investment they will
> have at most 5-10 real core OS developers. Linux has hundreds and most
> of them are highly modivated.
> 
> Granted it has been a few years since I have used QNX but my feeling at
> the time was that it was a marginaly useable real-time OS with few tools
> and no external applications. I still believe that QNX has a serious
> realtime focus. Most applications for clusters are not realtime
> applications.
> 
> But I could be wrong.
> 
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