Universities with embedded systems courses sometimes have legacy software archives. If you are a student writing a thesis on microkernel comparison (e.g., comparing QNX 6.5 to L4 or seL4), your department may have a license. You can also try contacting BlackBerry QNX’s academic program, though they will likely push you toward the modern QNX SDP 8.0 instead.
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