Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site wdl1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!hplabs!fortune!wdl1!jbn From: jbn@wdl1.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: Re: PX/VRTX Real-Time Multitasking O Message-ID: <854@wdl1.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 16:04:47 EST Article-I.D.: wdl1.854 Posted: Mon Nov 11 16:04:47 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Nov-85 08:28:42 EST Sender: notes@wdl1.UUCP Organization: Ford Aerospace, Western Development Laboratories Lines: 10 Nf-ID: #R:lanl:-3296900:wdl1:5000021:000:395 Nf-From: wdl1!jbn Nov 11 12:56:00 1985 VRTX was a nice little ROM-based real-time kernel, limited but very solid, and unchanged for several years. Then Hunter and Ready came out with a new version (3), changed the interface for all the system calls, and changed the semantics of several of them, for no really pressing reason. Not a good tactic from a company that's big on putting software components in ROM. John Nagle