Andy Bechtolscheim says: It’s really hard to add value to Windows. Whatever you add, Microsoft is going to take away from you. Linux has opportunities.
Read moreThe Embedded Enterprise, Pruit-Igoe, Ayn-Rand, the telecommunications stack and why software does not suck
Programmers will readily tell you that “Windows sucks” or “Linux sucks” or “POSIX sucks” why this or that software is badly designed, bloated, slow, buggy,
Read moreSoft real time continues to sag
Paul McKenney once wrote: Despite such complications, priority inheritance works reasonably well for exclusive locks, and is a major component of Ingo Molnar’s CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT patch.
Read moreSoft real-time and soft design strategies versus QOS
[ see revised version ] (edited August 18 2007 to add back link and formatting) “Soft real-time” is a perfect example of the “soft design”
Read moreProgramming design style
Someone needs to come up with a slick name for “designed to fail during test instead of production” or for the more common “soft” type
Read moreThe embedded enterprise
It is now possible to put together sophisticated and powerful embedded and control systems that are mostly composed of pre-existing working software. One of the
Read moreSpeculation on modularity and information theory
One way of defining modules is by what engineers have to know. If a program X consists of components X1 … Xn then we can
Read moremulticore and virtualization and real-time provisioning
We added the “reservation” capability to RTCore real-time POSIX threads a couple of years ago. Normally, the client platform operating system shares the processor with
Read moreSingle core cell phone solution and marketing vs engineering
FSMLabs is finally able to discuss the single core cell phone handset solution we developed with Infineon Technologies last year. This system is cool technology
Read moreMicrokernels and why academic OS research is boring
Andy Tanenbaum writes a defense of microkernels that (1) misses the content of Linus Torvald’s critique, (2) ignores the most relevant paper on software development,
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