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To: TigerPaw who wrote (16676)	1/28/2000 9:56:00 PM
From: the hube	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

WIND I was more familiar with IRMX and VRTX all of which are obsolete now. Still the last project I was on was high volume, low cost. After looking at OSs it was decided that we could save a nickle per device by doing our own and so we did. That is exactly the analysis most companies do, and it is the reason 85% of the market is still roll your own. Unfortunately for many companies, is the fact that it is much easier to do with a 8 or 16 bit processor doing a couple of tasks than it is for a 32 bit processor responsible for multiple tasks, including communicating with the outside world. More and more, time to market is a controlling factor. If a company can get a product to market 6 months faster by outsourcing the operating system, it often makes sense, even if it costs a couple of dollars extra per product.