[ECOS] How does people think of ecos's future compare to so m any existing RTOS? eg.RT-Linux, Embedded Linux, VxWorks, etc.. Welcome to discuss

[Grant Edwards]

> > We frequently would write abstraction layers on top of the OS
> > with inline functions or macros so we could switch operating
> > systems in midstream.  Nobody liked to be tied to a vendor.
> 
> We do exactly that, and I'd highly recommend it to other
> developers.  We have an OS abstraction layer that provides
> standard kernel type functionality such as thread scheduling
> and IPC in an OS independent manner.

Yup. That's the whole point of vendor-independant APIs like
Posix, uITRON, and sockets.  And eCos supports all three. :)

-- 
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com

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