System Architecture
At the heart of the BlackBerry 10 OS is the QNX Neutrino realtime operating system. The System Architecture guide accompanies the QNX Neutrino realtime OS and is intended for both application developers and end-users.
This guide describes the philosophy of QNX Neutrino and the architecture used to robustly implement the OS. It covers message-passing services, followed by the details of the microkernel, the process manager, resource managers, and other aspects of QNX Neutrino.
The following table may help you find information quickly:
| To find out about: | Go to: |
|---|---|
| OS design goals; message-passing IPC | The Philosophy of QNX Neutrino |
| System services | The QNX Neutrino Microkernel |
| Sharing information between processes | Interprocess Communication (IPC) |
| Working on a system with more than one processor | Multicore Processing |
| Memory management, pathname management, etc. | Process Manager |
| Shared objects | Dynamic Linking |
| RAM, Power-Safe, DOS, CD-ROM, NFS, and other filesystems | Filesystems |
| Network subsystem | Networking Architecture |
| TCP/IP implementation | TCP/IP Networking |
For information about programming in Neutrino, see Getting Started with QNX Neutrino: A Guide for Realtime Programmers and the QNX Neutrino Programmer's Guide.