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|osdev= QNX Software Systems, RIM (since 2010) | |osdev= QNX Software Systems, RIM (since 2010) | ||
|reldate= 1982 (QNX), 2001 (QNX Neutrino) | |reldate= 1982 (QNX), 2001 (QNX Neutrino) | ||
|lastrel= | |lastrel= v7.0 (March 2017) | ||
}} | }} | ||
==Technical details== | ==Technical details== | ||
QNX (now known as QNX Neutrino) is a full-featured | QNX (now known as QNX Neutrino) is a full-featured, minimalist real-time OS that is widely used in embedded systems. It is highly stable, and is used in automobiles, industrial applications, medical electronics, and nuclear power plants. | ||
QNX became freeware with source code available to hobbyists when QNX Software Systems was bought out by Harmon Kardon in 2004, but the source code became restricted again when QNX was bought out by BlackBerry (formerly Research in Motion) in 2010. BlackBerry has used QNX as the basis of its OSes for the BlackBerry PlayBook, and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_10 their line of smartphones] that were released between January 2013 and April 2015. | |||
==Character details== | ==Character details== | ||
===General=== | ===General=== | ||
QNX-tan is represented as cyan-haired woman who dresses in semi-formal attire. She wears buttoned shirts with a lab coat and tie, and the tie always has an even number of tie clips on them, since she | QNX-tan is represented as cyan-haired woman who dresses in semi-formal attire. She wears buttoned shirts with a lab coat and tie, and the tie always has an even number of tie clips on them, since she prefers to count only in even numbers. Her tendency for everything to be even and symmetric references the numbering scheme of QNX, which is now at version 7, but remained at version 6 for several years, and skipped versions 3 and 5. In her hair, she wears a hair clip on each side, one "QNX"-shaped, the other in the shape of the Neutrino logo. | ||
She is very level-headed, difficult to faze, values minimalism, and | She is very level-headed, difficult to faze, values minimalism and efficiency, and does not tolerate error from years of experience running mission-critical jobs. Among her fields of experience are mechanical work, nuclear physics, medicine, and medical technology. Her professional attitude even extends into her daily life out of force-of-habit; she is emotionally distant and somewhat reclusive because of all the responsibilities she has. When she interacts with others, she is polite and agreeable, but often does not talk with others for long; as a real-time OS-tan, she will drop the conversation when another job needs her attention. | ||
Contrasting with her expertise in various fields of science and engineering, she is terrible at domestic tasks, and her attempts at cooking often turn into dangerous | Contrasting with her expertise in various fields of science and engineering, she is terrible at domestic tasks, and her attempts at cooking often turn into dangerous "science experiments". | ||
QNX-tan is one of the most powerful OS-tans alive, since QNX is the most powerful and widely-used embedded OS. That gives her a tremendous hardware base to draw power from, which includes the nuclear power plants powered by QNX, but she is reluctant to use that power and willingly squanders it since she already has several responsibilities, and is afraid of getting corrupted by it | QNX-tan is one of the most powerful OS-tans alive, since QNX is the most powerful and widely-used embedded OS. That gives her a tremendous hardware base to draw power from, which includes the nuclear power plants powered by QNX, but she is reluctant to use that power and willingly squanders it since she already has several responsibilities, and is afraid of getting corrupted by it. | ||
Her weapon of choice is a photon cannon that she built herself. | |||
===Family and relationships=== | ===Family and relationships=== | ||
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==History and background== | ==History and background== | ||
===Early years=== | ===Early years=== | ||
QNX-tan was idealistic at first. She quickly gained a postive reputation for her stability and reliability. In 1984, she had her first major assignment in the Canadian education market as the OS for the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unisys_ICON Unisys ICON], which she served for several years, though she would face competition against MS-DOS-tan, Apple II-tan, and the Mac-tans. Through the late 1980's and early 1990's, her idealism faded as she was phased out of the market as later ICON machines would run MS-DOS or Windows, and because of the Unix Wars. | |||
She was drafted into the [[Timeline_of_The_Unix_Wars#1980s: | Unix Wars]] as a medic in 1988, because she was phased out of her original market and no longer had that job to exempt her from being drafted. | |||
===Unix Wars=== | ===Unix Wars=== | ||