TLDR
-
FOSDEM 2025 talk on recovering a Commodore 900 prototype, a rare 1980s workstation that shipped with QNX before Commodore abandoned it.
Key Takeaways
-
The Commodore 900 was a workstation-class machine intended to run QNX, a real-time Unix-like OS, never reaching commercial release.
-
The talk is framed as hardware archaeology: locating, recovering, and documenting a machine most people have never seen running.
-
QNX on the C900 predates its later use in embedded and automotive systems, making this an early snapshot of QNX in the wild.
-
FOSDEM 2025 format means this is a conference video, likely including live demo or hardware footage, not just slides.
-
The “lost hard drive” framing suggests data recovery from original storage was part of the investigation.
Hacker News Comment Review
-
No substantive HN discussion yet.
Original | Discuss on HN
