QNX Floppy Tools? (Was DIACOM)

[Pat Ford]

Previously, you (DIY_EFI Digest) wrote:
{ 
{ 	RE: QNX Floppy Tools? (Was DIACOM)
{ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 02:28:52 -0800 (PST)
{ From: Jon Watts <jonwatts at yahoo.com>
{ Subject: RE: QNX Floppy Tools? (Was DIACOM)
{ 
{ > From: "Jim Velasquez" <jimvela at ibm.net>
{ > Subject: QNX Floppy Tools? (Was DIACOM)
{ > 
{ > The QNX Demo Disk is one of my favorite examples of a small,
{ > focused embeddable product! (That, and the Linux Router Project's
{ > single-disk, run-from-ram concept).
{ - -------------

 Yeap one of the best ways to gain public mindshare.


{ QNX is way too expensive for any kind of hobbyist to use (thousands
{ of dollars for a development license).

 What I had in mind was a graphical user interface, on a reliable os
running from a single floppy, on most (read old 386 up) laptops. The 
expensive part may be changing soon.

 The serial engine reads a plain text aldl description file ( expandable
w/o requiring a big dev. kit) and the ability to save logged data

{ The design is very simplistic

 I think the company line is elegant 8*)

{ (in a good way) but it mostly finds it way into video poker machines
{ and such. 

I am working on it at work ( I'm a programmer at QNX)

{ 
{ What I'm surprised at is that there's not more talk of Linux on this
{ list.

 there has been alot of times linux has come up, I used it for years, it's
good stable BUT I work at qnx and my play at home helps me at work

{ By itself it could handle an EFI system and host it's own
{ analysis software. With real-time Linux (www.rtlinux.org) this is now
{ a certainty. Sooner or later someone will build a PC-104 (or smaller)
{ EFI unit.

 Al Lipper designed a pc based efi, and the pc104 bus is just an isa bus
with a funky connector( there is some minor electric differences but don't
worry) and you can buy pc104 protocards (expensive). what I did was add
a mini isa slot to a laptop using Al's pc-efi and ran it under QNX ( once 
again the main reason was size (ruled out M$), speed (same thing), and 
reliability. the choices I had was QNX (free from work) or Linux

{ 
{ This would be a great project, but by the time you're done you could
{ easily have bought an Electomotive or MoTec setup. Unless Lego comes
{ out with EFI sensors for the Mind Storm....... :)
{  
{ 
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{ Jon     
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