What is QNX/Neutrino?
QNX/Neutrino is QSSL’s latest OS product. QNX/Neutrino features a modular, user configurable kernel. Features such as hardware protection and a scheduler are optional. QNX/Neutrino provides similar functionality to QNX 4.24’s message passing, with some differences. It may be described as QSSL’s answer to the Holy Grail of OS’s. It should be able to support a very wide range of systems with respect to cpu power, from small embedded 386 systems, up to very large SMP and VLAN servers. Most descriptions from QSSL include a gradual migration of QNX 4.24 to the QNX/Neutrino kernel, although no time table has been provided. That’s the good news. The bad news is that QNX/Neutrino isn’t all here yet. The current product is being marketed mostly toward embedded systems development. It only has a very limited file system for now, and does not host its own development environment. Development must be from QNX 4, or NT (in beta as of 9/97). It’s even possible that with all the pressure from Microso
