[rescue] VxWorks?

Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez lefa at cats.ucsc.edu
Sat Oct 12 19:02:21 CDT 2002


On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Scott Newell wrote:

> At 06:00 PM 10/12/2002 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> >   VxWorks is a popular and fairly nice embedded RTOS from Wind River
> >Systems that's been around for many, many years.
>
> And expen$ive...
>

It was the same OS that was running on the Mars rover a few years ago. The
same OS that had that nice race condition happen a few million miles from
planet earth :-). The QNX rep that dealt with our lab (we were also working
with JPL) loved to point that out....



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