Kanata, Ontario
Bell and Dan Dodge began the project while students at the University of Waterloo in 1980. Bell and Dodge incorporated "Quantum Software Systems" in the Ottawa suburb of Kanata, Ontario to develop and sell the operating system, originally called "QUNIX". AT&amp;T requested the name be changed to avoid encroaching on their UNIX trademark, so "QUNIX" was renamed "QNX". The company name was later changed to "QNX Software Systems". The first commercial version of QNX was released for the Intel 8088 central processing unit (CPU) in 1982.