Vxworks 5.4.2 -

#EmbeddedSystems #RTOS #VxWorks #LegacyCode Did you know? VxWorks 5.4.2 (and earlier) used the wind kernel – a single flat address space, ring 0 only. Every task could see and corrupt every other task’s memory. But you could hot-patch functions live in the shell with just:

If you ever debugged a priority inversion with wind in Tornado 2.2 – you have my respect. vxworks 5.4.2

#vxworks #realtimesystems #embedded #retrocomputing 🕰️ Throwback: VxWorks 5.4.2 (circa early 2000s) #EmbeddedSystems #RTOS #VxWorks #LegacyCode Did you know