Recently reviewing some apps on my device (Blackberry Q10), I
noticed that some that I had installed don't have an option to
be removed - anymore.
On 10 Sep 2021, August Abolins said the following...
I don't know about QNX but with Android I am able to root it and get rid of any system apps and other bloatware that I don't want.
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I don't know about QNX but with Android I am able to root
it and get rid of any system apps and other bloatware that
I don't want.
What is QNX? Never heard of that before.
What is QNX? Never heard of that before.
What is QNX? Never heard of that before.
Hi Erich!
11 Sep 2021 09:33, from Erich B. -> Richard Miles:
QNX is a hard real-time OS.
It was/is used for cnc drilling machines, and such, where you have strict hard real time requirements.
It was also used for some ethernet routers and apparently it is the basis for a dying Canadian smartphone brand. (did neither know that Blackberry is using QNX nor that they still manufacture smartphones. I had the impression that they gave up on that and tried to focus on their server products.)
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I thought the Q stood for something.
On 12 Sep 2021, Erich B. said the following...
According to the great & wise Wikipedia:
"The product was originally developed in the early 1980s by Canadian company Quantum Software Systems, later renamed QNX Software Systems. The company was ultimately acquired by BlackBerry Limited in 2010."
So perhaps Q stands for Quantum?
Jay
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So perhaps Q stands for Quantum?
Ahhh! So glad that we have Mr. Wikipedia around so we can ask questions when we need to. :-)
On 12 Sep 2021, Erich B. said the following...
And maybe a further question: "How did they get from Quantum Software Systems to QNX?"
Also from the Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QNX):
"Gordon Bell and Dan Dodge, both students at the University of Waterloo in 1980, took a course in real-time operating systems, in which the students constructed a basic real-time microkernel and user programs. Both were convinced there was a commercial need for such a system, and moved to the high-tech planned community Kanata, Ontario, to start Quantum Software Systems that year. In 1982, the first version of QUNIX was released for the Intel 8088 CPU. In 1984, Quantum Software Systems renamed QUNIX to QNX in an effort to avoid any trademark infringement challenges."
So their first product was QUNIX later renamed/shortened to QNX to avoid any lawsuits.
Jay
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"The product was originally developed in the early 1980s by
Canadian company Quantum Software Systems, later renamed
QNX Software Systems. The company was ultimately acquired
by BlackBerry Limited in 2010."
So perhaps Q stands for Quantum?
Ahhh! So glad that we have Mr. Wikipedia around so we can
ask questions when we need to. :-)
Hello Erich B.!
** On Sunday 12.09.21 - 09:28, Erich B. wrote to Jay Harris:
Did you donate any $s to the Wikipedia group? They've been
soliciting for money recently. ;)
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