Talk:VxWorks

Marketing?

This appears to be almost marketing spiel, a feature and clients list, than a discussion of what it actually is. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Achromatic (talk • contribs) .

Concur. -Mardus 16:07, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

This is Wikipedia, so you know what to do: be bold and improve the article!

Atlant 16:08, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Cost?

Does anyone know how much this costs per seat? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.238.211.199 (talk • contribs) .

It's bloody expensive, and a total bitch to use (pardon the language, but I'm trying to get the bastard to work at this very moment and it's frustrating). /Alkanen

Would I be correct in guessing that you were not a Unix programmer before you tried to use VxWorks? 'Cause if you speak Unix and understand realtime concepts, the transition to VxWorks is usually thought to be very easy. I certainly found it to be so.

Atlant 12:19, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

I am a Unix programmer. It's not the programming in VxWorks that's hard, it's getting the thing to work with hardware that's not in the default installation package (viz. Leon2) that's horrid. It might not be VxWorks that's the problem, but rather the BSP though.

I'm sure software development will be quite simple once we get advanced features like processes to even compile...

Oh, by the way. Do you happen to know a good source of documentation? The one that comes with Workbench doesn't seem to go into specifics, only general issues. We're trying to find information on how to create our own device drivers and loading them into the kernel, and most of the information we find is in the nature of "Remember not to write too large device drivers, since the kernel needs to be fast". I mean duh, we know that, but we don't know the specific function calls to make in order to create the drivers in the first place. /Alkanen

https://portal.windriver.com/windsurf/techpubs/os/vxworks/v6.4/vxworks_device_driver_developers_guide_6.4.pdf

(Wind River UID and password necessary) Fumblebruschi 17:14, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Image

I took the liberty of moving the Orbiter image to the Products using VxWorks -section; it felt a little like an advertisement when right in the beginning of the article. If anyone disagrees, do feel free to revert. 82.181.61.48 00:18, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

(Speaking just for me), I have no problem with that. A better image to lead the article might be a fair-use screen shot of the VxWorks console (OS boot-up) splash screen; I'm pretty sure Wind River wouldn't/couldn't object to such use.

Atlant 12:55, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Which embedded OS has the most users

I'm thinking it's vxWorks, but can't find a source 69.228.240.57 22:46, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Competitive operating systems

This subtitle doesn't sound right to me. Competing, perhaps?