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To: Larry Cannell who wrote (78)6/3/1996 12:23:00 PM
From: Allen Benn   of 10309
 
I am not surprised that your detail-oriented friend thinks that Tornado is mostly a GUI wrapper over an existing VxWorks RTOS. Detail guys sometimes are slower to see the bigger picture. I think this is the case with your friend.

The impression I got about Tornado consists mainly of two revolutionary ideas:

1. The target is kept lean and mean, with the maximum amount of information possible kept on the host development computer. This means that the development target can be the exact same as the production target, and this probably saves big-time in the time-to-market category.
2. Tornado easily allows tool vendors, including WIND with WindView or the simulation package, to work cooperatively with the lean-and-mean target. In the past, tools may or may not work with a given instantiation of a production RTOS for reasons of limited real estate or platform incompatibilities.

With the latter feature, any tool that has been ported to the Tornado environment is available for use with any VxWorks target under development. The power of this is so great that it can only be describe as a tornado. As tool vendors see the value of porting to the Tornado environment (which only requires putting in the proper hooks), the value of Tornado increases synergistically, which causes more design engineers to choose Tornado, which …

Bottom line. I think Tornado is real, not just a GUI wrapper, and certainly not wimpy.

Allen,
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