QNX

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QNX-tan
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Character Information
Common Names	QNX-tan
Other Names	QNX Neutrino
Human Name(s)	Quinn X. Dodge
Faction	Anti$oft Coalition
Lineage	independent (influenced by, but not descended from Unix)
Rival(s)	OS-9, ROMDOS, Windows CE (competitors among embedded OSes), the Linux/Unix Consortium.
Appearance
Height	168 cm (5'6")
Hair Color	cyan
Eye Color	yellow
Weapon(s)	Photon beam cannon
Design
First Appearance	Sep 2006
Technical Information
System Personified	QNX
Developer(s)	QNX Software Systems, RIM (since 2010)
Debut	1982 (QNX), 2001 (QNX Neutrino)
Latest release	v6.5 (2010-11)

Technical details

QNX (now known as QNX Neutrino) is a full-featured but minimalist real-time OS that is obscure but extremely widely used in embedded systems. It is an extremely stable system, used in automobiles, industrial applications, medical electronics, nuclear power plants, and powers the world's most powerful router.

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 RIM (Research in Motion) in 2010. A variant of QNX is used as the OS in the Blackberry Playbook.

Character details

General

QNX-tan is represented as cyan-haired woman who dresses in semi-formal attire. She always wears buttoned shirts with a lab coat and tie, and the tie always has an even number of tie clips on them, since she counts only (or much prefers to) in even numbers. Her tendency for everything to be even and symmetric references the numbering scheme of QNX, which is now up to version 6.x, but there is no QNX 3 or 5. In her hair, she wears a hair clip on each side, one "QNX"-shaped, the other in the shape of the Neutrino logo.

External links

Wikipedia article on QNX