Seems fitting: the birth of QNX itself was Dan Dodge and Gord Bell collaborating on writing the operating system for the computers that they had respectively homebrewed. (I don't know if this is still true, but for years dtdodge had the computer he had built in his office -- it was an amazing piece of engineering, with the hand-made modem in particular inducing a kind of slack-jawed awe.) Motivated by Unix (and implementing it originally in B, if I recall correctly), they called their OS "Quick Unix" or "Qunix" -- which (after a brief infestation of AT&T lawyers) became QNX. Point is: great things spring from motivated amateurs.

Oh, and agreed that Tanenbaum was right. ;)