On 1/27/04 10:27 AM, "Mark Wieder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Trevor- > > Monday, January 26, 2004, 1:57:40 PM, you wrote: > > TD> The program Maestro <http://mars.telascience.org/> which allows you to > TD> see the data that the robots are sending back is written in Java. I > TD> don't know what the robot has but perhaps this is what they were > TD> talking about? > > AFAIK that's the only part of any of this that's written in java. > Buggy and s-l-o-w, to boot. I believe Spirit's OS was done by Wind > River Systems. > This is from a co-worker of mine: ----- No, it's not Java - it's Wind River's proprietary OS for embedded system. See: http://www.windriver.com/ and check out the very clever graphic and tagline at the top of the page. There's more detail at: http://www.windriver.com/marsrover/index.html I know this because Wind River Systems was our next-door neighbor when we had our office in Alameda and I've always noticed Wind River's name when it's mention in space projects. ----- doug _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
