[AccessD] Data interface The best way

A good friend taught with QNX up at the local college, last year, in a
course on designing 'Embedded Systems'. He described it as the ' the
antithesis of Windows'.

Jim 

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Salakhetdinov
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<<<
QNX was built in Ottawa by  some guys who left Bell Northern
Labs. I probably knew some of the original  designers,
>>>
I didn't work with it - I did olny plan to work with it - that was a beauty
OS - one 1.44MB floppy AFAIKR installation diskette for an OS with advanced
graphical interface!
It was written on assembler as far as I understood.

Shamil

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From: "MartyConnelly" <martyconnelly at shaw.ca>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 3:47 AM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Data interface The best way


I suppose CodeBase would run on QNX, but I did it the hard way, ran it
on 3.1 DOS emulator
which sat on top of QNX. It was sort of handy as C compilers were slow
in those days.
We just transfered the compiler build via a network of PC's and did it
on another box.
So we could continue on with something else. QNX was built in Ottawa by
some guys
who left Bell Northern Labs. I probably knew some of the original
designers, I think a couple
went over to work with Zanthe Software in Ottawa, the guys who built the
Zim database.
Nowadays you don't come across QNX unless you are fairly tied into the
hardware
Most of the machines that did film or CD or stick to prints in your
local photoshop had a QNX OS.
running a couple of networked pc's

Shamil Salakhetdinov wrote:

><<<
>Runs on Macs, Linux, Unix, Windows, PDA's, Win CE
>
>
>:)
>
>Well,  and I used this one since DOS 2.x(?) IBM PC XT 8MHz 640KB RAM/10GB
>HDD, Turbo C 1.0 - it was called first dbVista then Raima Data Manager and
>now RDM Embedded:
>http://www.raimabenelux.com/Products/RDM_embedded/default.htm
>
>The fastest on Earth probably embedded DBMS :)
>Has server vesion too.
>Has ODBC.
>Has query language a la SQL.
>Has advanced object mapping since year 1990 or earlier (C++).
>Runs on all OSes you listed + QNX etc. - in fact it runs on any OS, which
>can compile C  - it is delivered as binary executables and libraries for
>certain OS +  full C source code i.e. it's written completely on C.
>
>etc.etc.
>
>It uses ISAM-like/VSAM-like indexed files and double-linked lists.
>
>But it can't compete with MS SQL and even with MS Access these days and so
>it occupies rather narrow niche of embedded DBMSs....
>
>...my colleague uses it for many years for an advanced lightning fast
>payroll system, which was first programmed on MS DOS and now runs under MS
>Windows (any version) and under IIS - one example how C/C++ programminng
>saves one's code assets forever....
>
>Shamil
<<< tail trimmed>>>

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