bfoss@desteng.UUCP (Brad Foss) (08/02/85)
A friend of mine is having trouble with a program running at the Stanford Medical Center. She is not 'computer savey', so the description of what she has is a little hazey, but from what I can glean from her sounds like she has a Compaq, running MS-DOS. The program was written by a guy in San Diego who isn't interested in supporting the program any more, and suggests that she get someone familiar with the "QNX" language. Has anyone heard of QNX? Is there really such a language, or is this some kind of joke? If someone can let me know what other language this compares to, I'd appreciate it. Then I can decide if it would do any good for me to get involved. Thanks, as always, in advance. Brad Foss 3comvax!desteng!bfoss
tang@Shasta.ARPA (08/05/85)
> A friend of mine is having trouble with a program running at the Stanford > Medical Center. She is not 'computer savey', so the description of what > she has is a little hazey, but from what I can glean from her sounds like > she has a Compaq, running MS-DOS. > > The program was written by a guy in San Diego who isn't interested in supporting > the program any more, and suggests that she get someone familiar with the > "QNX" language. > > Has anyone heard of QNX? Is there really such a language, or is this some kind > of joke? > > If someone can let me know what other language this compares to, I'd appreciate > it. Then I can decide if it would do any good for me to get involved. > > Thanks, as always, in advance. > > Brad Foss > > 3comvax!desteng!bfoss QNX is not a language. It is an multi-user, multi-tasking operating system. It is rather unix-like, but it is *NOT* unix. It's shell is much much less powerful than the unix sh or csh. However, it is very impressive multi-user multi-tasking OS for a small machine like the IBMPC. A C compiler and an 8086/186/286 assembler are come standard with the package. Other languages like fortran and basic are available too, I guess. The OS is message-based. QNX 2.0 supports networking. tang ---- E-mail address: tang@shasta