jng@sli.com (Mike Gilbert) (03/05/90)
In article <305@gca.UUCP> beaulieu@gca.UUCP (Larry Beaulieu) writes: > >[VxWorks] is effectively a real time kernel which has UNIX-like extensions >added to it which allow it to interact well with UNIX systems, where >the UNIX box is used for s/w development, etc. and the VxWorks SBC >(typicially on a VME bus) is used for real time applications. >It supports many of the features commonly available with UNIX systems, >including support for TCP-IP and NFS. I'd like to correct this misconception about VxWorks being Unix-only: VxWorks also interacts well with VAX/VMS systems, as long as the VAX has one of the better TCP/IP/NFS packages (from DEC or elsewhere) installed. The VAX is used for software development and the SBC is used for real-time applications. I know a great deal about the VMS version because I'm biased: Software Leverage modified VxWorks to work with VMS hosts, and we now support, manufacture, and sell it. The VMS version was released last fall, and is supplied with the appropriate cross compiler and TCP/IP packages. I don't want to advertise in this newsgroup, but you should realize that the VMS version exists! Wind River's ads say "Unix or VAX" now, but most people still don't seem to realize that VxWorks now works quite well in a VAX/VMS development environment. For more information (technical questions or otherwise), you can e-mail to sales@sli.com, or call our hotline at (800) 648-1410. (You can also call Wind River, but they'll just refer you to us.) If we get e-mail containing technical questions of general interest about VMS VxWorks, we'll post a summary, with answers, to comp.realtime. Mike Gilbert UUCP: ...uunet!sli!jng DOMAIN: jng@sli.com Software Leverage, Inc.