QNX RtP has its own UI engine called Photon. QNX RtP 6.2 installed fine on both of our BP6 dual Celeron systems, but it could not load at all on my CTX eZBook 800 notebook (AMD K6-2 300, 64 MB) most probably because of problems with the Fujitsu hard drive, being somewhat unconventional since many Fujitsu drives do not return the correct ‘IDENTIFY’ string. Anything more than that is certainly welcomed by the system. You will need about 1 GB of free hard drive space. Only problem is that it overwrites the MBR with its own boot manager without asking you, which is not really a problem, just somewhat… rude.
PHOTON MODEM DRIVER DOWNLOAD ISO
Boot with the ISO CD, and follow the instructions to install.
PHOTON MODEM DRIVER DOWNLOAD SOFTWARE
I think it is wise of QNX Software Systems not to provide a FAT32 image file anymore, as a lot of users are now using NTFS under Windows 2000 or XP, a filesystem not supported by QNX, therefore the OS would not boot and would only create confusion among inexperienced users.
As far as I can see today, version 6.2 is only available as a bootable ISO image (250+ MBs) ready to be installed in its own partition. Earlier versions of RtP could be either installed in its own partition, or as a big bootable image file off a FAT32 partition. QNX Software Systems has released several patches and updates since then, so today we are exclusively previewing version 6.2, which is still under closed beta test. The first version of QNX RtP (RtP=Real-time Platform) was released in September 2000, and it was downloaded from more than a million users off the web. The desktop-enhanced version of QNX RtP (free for non-commercial use) runs on almost all modern x86 CPUs, and if we judge from the following screenshots, it looks pretty good for an embedded system OS.
Many of you maybe even have tried the old demodisk, a demo of the QNX4 RTOS, plus the previous version of the Photon GUI, fitting in a single 1.44 floppy. QNX is used everywhere, from VCRs, to DVDs, to medical machinery and even satellites and space shuttles. The OS was created in the early 1980’s by QNX Software Systems, a Canadian company, but the version we are previewing today (unreleased yet, version 6.2), based on the Neutrino kernel, was pretty much (re)written from scratch some years ago.
QNX is an operating system that all of us have used, but few of us realize it when we do.