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To: James Connolly who wrote (5007)4/23/1999 6:40:00 PM
From: Richard Forsythe  Respond to of 10309
 
It sounds as if Cisco IOS is (or can be) a layer on top of vxworks. It may be that their core IOS is written for a particular processor (what is the processor in a Cisco box?), but now they are branching into new hosts for network devices, they find vxworks attractive because they can get to market much quicker on a variety of processors. It sounds like a crucial, key win for WIND...

Richard