Experimental Physics and
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[email protected] (Tim Mooney) · Thu, 8 Jan 1998 12:03:47 -0600

re...

> I propose that we do away with the "bare" hideos support. Thus instead
> of a 162 running only Hideos we will instead support a 162 running
> vxWorks and Hideos.
> 
> Disadvantages:
> 
> 1) Need a vxWorks target lisence for each 162.
> 2) More memory usage. (Note that our rather full blown vxWorks uses
> about .5 meg)
> 
> Advantages
> 
> 1) Most of the Hideos code goes away
> 2) Will be much easier to support new processors (172, powerPc, etc)
> 3) Will have vxWorks debugging environment. Also tornado environment.
> 
> Marty Kraimer

I think this is a great idea.  At roughly $400 per target license, using
VxWorks is *way* less expensive than writing and maintaining the OS part of
"bare" hideos for a new processor.  Also, the change is certain to simplify
things for hideos users (I mean application developers).

If VxWorks-based hideos will, in fact, run on a 1MB MVME162, I'm in favor
of dropping "bare" hideos altogether.

Tim

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