QNX, Useful applications

[Mark Tapley]

All,
	regarding QNX, there must be a reasonable user base out 
there. The QNX on x86 guys have cranked more on the Distributed.net 
RC5-72 project than the NeXTSTEP/x86 crowd, and are still active.
	I also note the existence of a QNX on ARM client, which 
implies QNX ran on some ARM platform as well. Palm?

	To tie in a different thread, regarding "practical" 
applications for vintage computers, Distributed.net seems like a 
natural. It's not exactly Earth-shaking science at the moment, but 
it's a big problem that breaks naturally down into a lot of very 
small pieces, so it's something classic systems can actually 
practically contribute to.

	I would *love* to see a VMS/VAX client, and to my knowledge 
there are several VAXen on the net now doing not so much at any given 
moment. Do any of you VMS gurus have time and inclination to combine 
the VMS/Alpha and the NetBSD/VAX clients and let us put VMS/VAX on 
the charts?

	And of course, I don't know *why* no-one has put the MacOS 
6-9 client back active. I actually have a copy of CodeWarrior, so let 
me know if you have time, ability, and inclination, but lack of 
CodeWarrior. We can work out a loan. Personally, I have inclination 
and CodeWarrior, but neither (really) time nor ability, though I'm 
trying to work on it.

	I don't suppose an 8-bit client is practical - I've never 
heard of a C++ compiler to 8-bit target - but it would be really cool 
to crack a block of keys on my Rainbow under CP/M-80. Sigh.

	Does anybody have any positive/negative experience with 
distributed.net that I should know about?

http://www.distributed.net/ for more info. Hit "statistics", pick a 
project, and look for "mtapley at swri.edu" to see my meager 
contributions so far, or go straight to 
http://www.distributed.net/source/ to grab the public part of the 
source.
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