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Technology Stocks : Wind River going up, up, up! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: James Connolly who wrote (5974)	7/30/1999 1:22:00 PM
From: Ronald Paul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10309

Did anyone read the July 26th issue of the EE-Times with a special multipage section on Embedded Systems and RTOS's? The front page even used the Mars Pathfinder as an example. But, curiously, not even one mention of Wind River or VxWorks in any of the multipage articles. CE, QNX, NT, pSOS, real-time Linux, etc all were highlighted. An article written by QNX's head technologist went into much detail about what differentiates RTOS's from general purpose OS's. When describing pre-emptive context switching within a multi-threaded OS, he used the notorious software-bug example when the Mars Pathfinder got stuck - presumably because of a lack of OS support of priority-level inheritance within a pre-emptive OS. By implication (and omission), he was insinuating that Wind River's VxWorks was the culprit of that software glitch (it was actually the application on top of VxWorks which was subsequently rectified allowing the pathfinder to continue) In any event, I found it somewhat concerning that the EE-Times could run such a lengthy expose of in depth articles without even one mention of Wind River. It is like writing an article about the PC revolution without any mention of Microsoft or Intel.