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Interview: Adding deterministic, real-time control to XP Embedded using INtime
2003-10-03
Microsoft spoke with Kim Hartman, Director of Sales and Marketing at TenAsys Corp., about how that company's INtime software adds deterministic, real-time capabilities to Microsoft's Windows XP Embedded and other Windows platforms. From the introduction . . .
"Microsoft: Let's start from the beginning. How does a customer know whether or not they require a deterministic operating system? What sort of prescriptive guidance can you offer? Kim: Picture yourself well down the path into the beta trials of your new Windows XP Embedded-based product, when your new potential customer points out that your application program seems to behave differently depending on something as seemingly irrelevant as a mouse click, opening the DVD-ROM drive, or just by hooking up to the network. They can't seem to reproduce it all the time, but have experienced it just the same. In some cases it could be merely an inconvenience, or in others, a total disaster. For the most part they all point to the same issue, lack of hard real-time determinism . . ." Read full story
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