Vxworks 5.4.2 〈CONFIRMED · 2027〉

Who else here survived the 5.x era? Bonus points if you used and thought it was magic.

#vxworks #realtimesystems #embedded #retrocomputing 🕰️ Throwback: VxWorks 5.4.2 (circa early 2000s) vxworks 5.4.2

If you ever debugged a priority inversion with wind in Tornado 2.2 – you have my respect. Who else here survived the 5

Still running in some places where “if it ain’t broke, don’t update the BSP.” Still running in some places where “if it

#VxWorks #Embedded #RealTimeKernel

#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:

Just fired up an old project image from the early 2000s – , Tornado 2.2, and a Pentium-based SBC.