rg@msel.unh.edu (Roger Gonzalez) (04/09/91)
Anyone have experience porting large pieces of software to VxWorks? We're interested in finding out how difficult it is to get things like Lisp or Prolog interpreters running, as well as other large pieces of code that normally run under standard operating systems (Unix, especially.) We're facing the choice between - spend $$ on zillions of man hours to make the lisp/prolog/etc run on a small real-time OS (w/o disk, networks, etc.) - spend the $$ on a new real-time OS like vxworks and get all the OS support we need for off-the-shelf software (in theory) We obviously prefer the second alternative, but need to justify it much more vigorously because $$ for man hours are much easier to fund than $$ for new software and hardware. Please email any useful tidbits of info... especially if you don't mind being quoted as praising VxWorks in glowing terms :-) -Roger -- "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim" - Edsgar W. Dijkstra rg@[msel|unhd].unh.edu | UNH Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory r_gonzalez@unhh.bitnet | Durham, NH 03824-3525