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From: baumann@muon.uucp (Michael Baumann)
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: Re: VxWorks(?)
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Date: 1 Mar 90 15:39:05 GMT
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In article <305@gca.UUCP> beaulieu@gca.UUCP (Larry Beaulieu) writes:
>> I have seen many postings regarding VxWorks here.  I was wondering (in my 
>> ignorance) what VxWorks actually does in the realm of real-time computing.
>> Is this an operating system or a programming language?

>	At one point, you had a choice of either using Wind River Systems's own
>	kernel or Ready Systems' VRTX; I don't know if that's still true. 
Not any more. Seems there was some kind of falling-out between
Wind River and Ready Systems, and they no longer support VRTX kernels.
However, they do support both pSOS and their own 'WIND' kernels.



Michael Baumann
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