QNX 486 and lack of information

QNX Newsgroups (Archives) comp.os.qnx
#1

Hi, someone gave me a 486sx 25, with a whooping 8 megs of ram, sooo I
thought that I would try and make an internet appliance out of it.

QNX installed ok on the 350 meg hdd, but it will not load Phindows, I
can boot to the prompt and logon as root.

What I would like to know is if anyone else has tried to make a internet
appliance out of an old 486 using QNX?

Is my free computer powerfull enough for the task, am I banging my head
against the wall using QNX, is there something better? Will Phindows
run in 8 megs of ram? Should I just throw the computer away?

Well thanks, I just have never run QNX before, but after reading up on
it at the web site, Kinda looked like it would.

#2

Any chance of upping the RAM to 32MB and trying RTP’s new version on
it instead. I’d be curious how it would go, esp. for RTP’s MP3 and
Video support.
“looneybin” <username@isp.net> wrote in message
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Hi, someone gave me a 486sx 25, with a whooping 8 megs of ram, sooo I
thought that I would try and make an internet appliance out of it.

QNX installed ok on the 350 meg hdd, but it will not load Phindows, I
can boot to the prompt and logon as root.

What I would like to know is if anyone else has tried to make a internet
appliance out of an old 486 using QNX?

Is my free computer powerfull enough for the task, am I banging my head
against the wall using QNX, is there something better? Will Phindows
run in 8 megs of ram? Should I just throw the computer away?

Well thanks, I just have never run QNX before, but after reading up on
it at the web site, Kinda looked like it would.

#3

In my personal opinion, I have never tried QNX in an environment so small,
but it works and fits on a floppy disk so I know it SHOULD work. Although I
think QNX RTP was actually intended to be a test/development platform for
QNX 4…have you tried QNX 4 on your 486sx? You can install the demo floppy
to the HDD I think? But don’t take my word for it. What are the other
factors concerning your hardware? Have you looked into seeing if QNX RTP
was meant to run on a 486sx? What about your video card? I would seriously
give Linux a shot to use as an Internet Appliance on this type of hardware.
You can find out a ton of information on Linux, even Realtime Linux, if you
want to. So, I would personally try Linux first if you can’t get QNX to
work right.

Ryan


“looneybin” <username@isp.net> wrote in message
news:PM00037B464286253E@unknown.unknown.dom…

Hi, someone gave me a 486sx 25, with a whooping 8 megs of ram, sooo I
thought that I would try and make an internet appliance out of it.

QNX installed ok on the 350 meg hdd, but it will not load Phindows, I
can boot to the prompt and logon as root.

What I would like to know is if anyone else has tried to make a internet
appliance out of an old 486 using QNX?

Is my free computer powerfull enough for the task, am I banging my head
against the wall using QNX, is there something better? Will Phindows
run in 8 megs of ram? Should I just throw the computer away?

Well thanks, I just have never run QNX before, but after reading up on
it at the web site, Kinda looked like it would.

#4

“looneybin” <username@isp.net> wrote in message
news:PM00037B464286253E@unknown.unknown.dom…

Hi, someone gave me a 486sx 25, with a whooping 8 megs of ram, sooo I
thought that I would try and make an internet appliance out of it.

QNX installed ok on the 350 meg hdd, but it will not load Phindows, I
can boot to the prompt and logon as root.

I think you mean Photon? Photon is the GUI. Phindows is a product
that runs on Windows and allows you to view a photon session that is
running on a QNX mahcine.

What I would like to know is if anyone else has tried to make a internet
appliance out of an old 486 using QNX?

With only 8 megs it will be tight, if it runs at all. I really have my
doubts, but
I haven’t tried. Hopefully someone else will be able to comment.

Is my free computer powerfull enough for the task, am I banging my head
against the wall using QNX, is there something better? Will Phindows
run in 8 megs of ram? Should I just throw the computer away?

You might want to try getting our QNX 1.44mb demodisk which includes
a web browser. This should run in 8mb.

Well thanks, I just have never run QNX before, but after reading up on
it at the web site, Kinda looked like it would.

#5

if you cannot get qnx running…
i suggest loading dos onto your machine and using the arachne
browser http://home.arachne.cz (i believe)

i’ve actually run it on a 286 machine with 2 megs of ram and a 20 meg
hd.
although the 286 was too slow to be of practical use…the machine
you have would run it very well.

you may have to play with memory management a bit
or run the app from a ramdisk


Philo


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#6

With 16Megs RAM it works, more if booting from floppy and using a RAMDisk.
-Paul

James Boucher <jaboucher@home.com> wrote in message
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Any chance of upping the RAM to 32MB and trying RTP’s new version on
it instead. I’d be curious how it would go, esp. for RTP’s MP3 and
Video support.
“looneybin” <> username@isp.net> > wrote in message
news:> PM00037B464286253E@unknown.unknown.dom> …
Hi, someone gave me a 486sx 25, with a whooping 8 megs of ram, sooo I
thought that I would try and make an internet appliance out of it.

QNX installed ok on the 350 meg hdd, but it will not load Phindows, I
can boot to the prompt and logon as root.

What I would like to know is if anyone else has tried to make a internet
appliance out of an old 486 using QNX?

Is my free computer powerfull enough for the task, am I banging my head
against the wall using QNX, is there something better? Will Phindows
run in 8 megs of ram? Should I just throw the computer away?

Well thanks, I just have never run QNX before, but after reading up on
it at the web site, Kinda looked like it would.