From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c23311c4d57b937e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Amado Alves Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Embedded Keynote Speaker Mentions Ada Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 23:19:30 +0100 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <414B6E62.9070402@acm.org> <0hL2d.762$QB1.501@trndny02> <414E2306.6030404@acm.org> <8%q3d.1820$kn2.1441@trndny07> <414EE3A0.9080106@acm.org> <1095728821.921629@yasure> <1095858248.693771@yasure> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1095891613 13778 212.85.156.195 (22 Sep 2004 22:20:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 22:20:13 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Sep 2004 22:19:56.0845 (UTC) FILETIME=[4AAABDD0:01C4A0F2] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3969 Date: 2004-09-22T23:19:30+01:00 >>Yes, and better yet, IMO, would be more advanced systems, >>distributed systems e.g. Plan 9 or Unununium, or real time systems >>e.g. VxWorks (is there a port to stock PCs already?), or a >>combination, because c'mon, the Linux kernel sucks eggs. > > VxWorks has its place, sure, and if you were developing eg a set-top > box it might be the right thing. Even there people are using embedded > Linux for preference. Doesn't a set-top require real time? RTLinux? > Pretty sure you can get VxWorks off the shelf for stock PCs... Cool, maybe I'll try some day. I'm pretty fed up with Windows and Linux. > Not sure whether sucking eggs is (in your view) good or bad? Bad. No real time. Not distributed. Monolithic. (Sorry I though sucking eggs was universally bad :-)