[TUHS] Clever code (was Re: Re: Stdin Redirect in Cu History/Alternatives?

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2022 at 10:47, Harald Arnesen <skogtun at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There was a rumour back in the early 90s that a new version of AmigaOS
> would be based on QNX.

Oh, it wasn't a rumour. The deal got quite advanced.

My now-employers covered it at the time:
https://www.theregister.com/1998/11/14/amiga_2_to_use_qnx/


> This was just before Commodore went bust, so
> nothing came out of it.

It was after. By this point it was Gateway Inc paying for it. There's
an account of what happened here:

https://www.trollaxor.com/2005/06/how-qnx-failed-amiga.html

The next-gen Amiga project was pretty much why QNX gained its GUI, Neutrino:

https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/qnx621

This is also the basis of the famous QNX Demo Disk, build by the late
great Dan Hildebrandt:

http://qnx.puslapiai.lt/qnxdemo/qnx_demo_disk.htm

>  A shame, I rather liked the Amiga and its
> so-called Workbench.

It was a good OS in its time and its admirers often call it a
microkernel, but IMVHO if all the code is in the same memory space,
that's not really a true microkernel.

Amiga Inc then went on to nearly do a deal with Tao Group for the much
more advanced Taos, in its later v2 incarnation as Intent/Elate.

https://wiki.c2.com/?TaoIntentOs

https://www.osnews.com/story/157/tao-group-on-elateos-amigade-and-more/

Ars has some info on this nearly-forgotten OS:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/a-history-of-the-amiga-part-12-red-vs-blue/

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