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To: pat pasquale who wrote (6427)	9/29/1999 4:30:00 PM
From: Prognosticator	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10309

Yes. I'm looking at Real-Time Linux (RTLinux?), and what I see so far has impressed me. Check out their URL: rtlinux.org. As a Wind River investor this makes me nervous. The only good side of it is that Linux and VxWorks share almost the same development environment, and it is almost trivial to port code between them. I am going to try to quiz WIND about it this afternoon at the ESC. I'll let you know what I find out. A historical perspective may help to predict what may happen (how's that for a disclaimer). Historically, VxWorks started out as a set of library packages extending VRTX (Ready Systems -- now defunct and part of Mentor Graphics). WIND only developed their OS kernel when Ready's terms of licensing became oppressive. There would be a good role for Wind putting their powerful development and debugging tools on top of RTLinux. Most of the WIND software is already GNU derived, and hence GPL'ed, so I don't think its a real threat. Indeed, if I understand the RTLinux architecture the VxWorks kernel itself might be pluggable as the real-time executive (with some modification). I'll tell you who I think RTLinux really threatens: WindowsCE. P.