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QNX Alive

QNX
KindOperating system
Appeared1982
StatusAlive
CreatorDan Dodge & Gordon Bell / BlackBerry
FamilyIndependent
Platformx86, ARM, automotive
Sourceblackberry.qnx.com ↗

The microkernel that never left — realtime message-passing since 1982; now the OS inside a quarter-billion car dashboards.

Influenced by Research Unix
Created by Dan Dodge

QNX (1982) is the microkernel that worked — Gordon Bell and Dan Dodge's message-passing kernel for embedded real-time work, POSIX-compliant, and shipped in cars, nuclear plants, and the iPhone's baseband chips.\n\nBlackBerry bought it in 2010; QNX 8 still runs in 195 million vehicles and most hospital equipment.

Sources

  1. blackberry.qnx.com/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNX