Dominick Trascritti wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have been working on a miniRTL hosted control system developed on a full
> RTLinux system. I have been rather pleased with the product. I am pleased
> with the timing accuracy of the system and being able to leverage my
> knowledge of Linux to get embedded projects off.
>
> I was challenged to defend RTLinux against VXWorks. I have some data on it,
> but I thought I would ask you all about it. I am sure opinions aren't scarce
> around here.
>
> How does VXWorks stack up?
>
> _._
> Dominick A. Trascritti
>
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IMHO VxWorks is an excellent product, highly performant and highly
configurable, with a rich API and a comprehensive set of very good and
useful tools. However, you don't get the source code and it's *not*
cheap! Mind you, the manuals are good for blocking-in doorways, or
building your own office (:-). Being very rich and configurable can make
it daunting to get started but it's usually worth it. I believe VxWorks
is a very good yardstick by which to measure other RTOSs.
Commercial, proprietary code is always vulnerable to company buy-out and
obsolescence. Wind River Systems have themselves bought Integrated
Systems which *may* well mean the end of another very good RTOS, pSOS.
What's to say WRS aren't similarly vulnerable? Whereas Real Time Linux
is open source...
Just my 4 penny-worth,
Trevor.
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