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Busting the Myths around VxWorks #4: VxWorks reliability

I don’t think we are promoting the reliability of our products well enough. In particular, a key attribute and value of VxWorks is its reliability. Being a newcomer to Wind River...

15 years 9 months ago

Wind River’s Next Chapter

It’s been roughly 90 days since Wind River became a wholly ownedsubsidiary of Intel, and I wanted to take this opportunity to sharewith you the state of our business and a few...

15 years 9 months ago

Busting the Myths around VxWorks #3: VxWorks and Memory Protection

A common misconception about VxWorks is that it doesn’t have memoryprotection. Other forms of this myth maybe that you can only programVxWorks with flat memory tasks and that it...

15 years 9 months ago

Ada & C mixed language development

Last week, I downloaded AdaCore's GNAT Pro 6.2.2 and the latest GNATbench 2.3.1 release (which was announced yesterday), as I wanted to port an Ada & C mixed-language application...

15 years 10 months ago

Busting the Myths around VxWorks #2: Support for Multicore

I’ve heard from our sales team that even our own customersare not aware of VxWorks' support for Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP). SMP, forthose not clear on the terminology is one...

15 years 10 months ago

Busting the Myths around VxWorks: VxWorks isn’t dead!

I recently joined Wind River as product marketing manager for VxWorksand as an outsider and former competitor, I think there are many mythssurrounding VxWorks that need to be...

15 years 10 months ago

Tornado GR4 Goes Extreme

In case you missed the news, our partner McObject has just announced that BAE SYSTEMS has selected the eXtremeDB running on VxWorks for the Tornado Advanced Radar Display...

15 years 10 months ago

Quit Bugging Me: ABI

What's in an ABI? An Application Binary Interface is a lot like a API – Applications Programming Interface, except instead of just telling you how to make a call, what parameters...

15 years 10 months ago

Planetary Forges

Interesting recent observations have been made by various space probes. Some that I find interesting from the past few weeks are from Stardust, Opportunity and Spitzer Space...

15 years 11 months ago

Quit Bugging Me: Induction

Working on a customer problem once, we had an interesting phenomena. Upgrading a system with a large VME cage and several boards, the customer replaced older processor boards with...

16 years 1 month ago