[BC] Linux based server

[Cowboy]

On Saturday 28 February 2009 08:12 am, WBRadiolists at aol.com wrote:

>  It would be cool if someone had continued to tweak QNX, to add more NIC 
>  drivers, so that it would work with more than just 3 types! (Obviusly needing a 
>  seperate floppy, but that would be fine!) 

 Not gonna happen !
 QNX is not an open system. The floppy was intended to demo what
 could be done with QNX-4 as an embedded system, nothing more.

 They're well into the 6 series now, which isn't near as compact, but
 still comes entirely complete, for three different architectures,
 on a single CD.

>  Still, to amke a complete OS like that,  
>  in under 2 megs, is impressive!

 Not really.
 It depends on the purpose of the system.

>  It makes me wonder how much more could be  
>  done with ultra-compact code like that!

 That's the thing !
 As soon as you ask "how much more" the purpose changes, and
 along with that comes bloat.
 That's partly why WinCE comes on 18 CD's. ( or did, back when I checked )

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Cowboy