QNX RTP: worth trying to install it?

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Hi all,

this is a newbie question par excellance, I would guess.

Anyway, I planned to reanimate my old computer and fell over QNX, which seems
to be worth playing around with.

I wonder now, if it is worth while trying to install QNX RTP (Neutrino) on a
SIS 5511/5513 board (video and audio on board) with 16MB (two of them for
video) and a 100MHz Cyrix 6x86 M1 processor? The box has W95 running at the
moment. (And yes, it is as slow as it sounds) :wink:

The plans I have with that machine is playing around with a UNIX clone and
with networking, e.g. connecting to a W98 machine or using it as a firewall
later, C++ coding and stuff like that.
For all that, there is no high prio on photon, although a graphical interface
is always nice.

I know from the web, that this board is not supported (at least, I found
nothing) and all I get, when I install it is VGA 640x480, 8bit.

So before going any further, I thought I save some nerves and ask here.

Any answer is apprechiated.

Regards,
Uwe

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“Uwe Kunkel” <Uwe.Kunkel@nortelnetworks.com> wrote in message
news:3A2BA0B1.58BF0064@nortelnetworks.com…

Hi all,

this is a newbie question par excellance, I would guess.

Anyway, I planned to reanimate my old computer and fell over QNX, which
seems
to be worth playing around with.

I wonder now, if it is worth while trying to install QNX RTP (Neutrino) on
a
SIS 5511/5513 board (video and audio on board) with 16MB (two of them for
video) and a 100MHz Cyrix 6x86 M1 processor? The box has W95 running at
the
moment. (And yes, it is as slow as it sounds) > :wink:

16M is not enough to run QNX RTP with Photon. If you
stick with text mode it won’t be too bad, but I don’t
think you’ll be able to compile nothing but small app.

The plans I have with that machine is playing around with a UNIX clone and
with networking, e.g. connecting to a W98 machine or using it as a
firewall
later, C++ coding and stuff like that.
For all that, there is no high prio on photon, although a graphical
interface
is always nice.

I know from the web, that this board is not supported (at least, I found
nothing) and all I get, when I install it is VGA 640x480, 8bit.

So before going any further, I thought I save some nerves and ask here.

Any answer is apprechiated.

Regards,
Uwe