DOUG@ysub.ysu.edu (Doug Sewell) (07/06/90)
Has anyone done a relative comparison of QNX, minix, Coherent, and other Unix-lookalike OS for IBM-clones ? In particular, I'm interested in: source availability (as I understand, available only for minix) ease of porting Unix code to environment third-party software availability (commercial, shareware, freeware) communication software (uucp, tip/cu/kermit, zmodem, TCP/IP, etc) -- does NOT necessarily have to be provided by OS vendor. Environment would be an 8-mhz AT-clone (Everex/AGI). Real Unix (requiring a real 80386) would be overkill. Presently would be standalone, a SLIP or UUCP connection might be down the road. Please reply via e-mail, I will post a summary. Thanks, Doug
frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick) (07/07/90)
In article <90186.163317DOUG@ysub.ysu.edu> DOUG@ysub.ysu.edu (Doug Sewell) writes: >Has anyone done a relative comparison of QNX, minix, Coherent, and >other Unix-lookalike OS for IBM-clones ? I haven't done a comparison, but you might want to know that QNX is not a Unix look-alike. If you approach it from that angle, you'll either be very disappointed or very pleased :-) (Some of the concepts are common, and some of the commands have the same names, but the syntax and system architecture is quite different. QNX is similar to Unix primarily insofar as both are 'C machines'.) -- Frank Kolnick, Basis Computer Systems Inc. UUCP: {allegra, linus}!utzoo!mnetor!frank