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Re: general question on eCos
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- To: Fabrizio Sebastiani <fsnergalists at inwind dot it>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 02:42:51 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] general question on eCos
- References: <3CDFC782.2020404@inwind.it>
Fabrizio Sebastiani wrote:
>
> in the faq 'What is eCos'
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/fom-serv/ecos/cache/19.html
>
> says that:
>
> eCos is an open-source, royalty-free, highly configurable,
> application-specific operating system ideal for embedded systems
> development.
>
> this is means that is only used to develop application that usually run
> under other OS ? (e.g. Linux?)
>
> Or is it a full-feature OS (working and development) for embedded OSs ?
It is an OS in itself. It doesn't run under another OS. (well there is the
synthetic linux target, but that's a special case).
Jifl
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