QNX: The Incredible 1.44M Demo
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·August 10, 2025anonzzzies
I got that floppy with some magazine. It was incredible and magic. I cry when some one application update pulls gigabytes over the line for some changes I don't give a crap about and don't notice but 'you have to update to continue' (yes, it's xcode).
jll29
QNX was well-liked in the embedded world. A friend of mine wrote some river lock control software in Pascal under QNX in the early 1990s.
SpaceNoodled
It's still used to this day!
sillywalk
I remember trying this on an actual floppy disk.
Previously:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33123697
226 points by lproven on Oct 7, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 151 comments
rado
First time online at home, over dial-up, with this floppy. It just worked
This was such a cool demo back then. There were many systems that could boot from a floppy, of course, but booting into a GUI with TCP/IP stack showing a real internet browser was really something!