Re: [rtl] I swear I am not trolling!

[yodaiken@fsmlabs.com]

On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 03:13:36PM +0100, Trevor Woolven wrote:
> IMHO VxWorks is an excellent product, highly performant and highly
> configurable, with a rich API and a comprehensive set of very good and
> useful tools. However, you don't get the source code and it's *not*
> cheap! Mind you, the manuals are good for blocking-in doorways, or

You can get the source code if you pay enough. The real problems, IMHO, are
that (A) it's not realtime (B) it has a confusing  programming model
because it mixes RT and non RT and (C) per license royalties.

I think the near disaster on Mars Lander is a warning sign about the VxWorks
programming model.



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