although vms are a good solution for some problems I can personally report more businesses (retail, hospitals!) still using windows xp on standalone pcs than I can count on my fingers and toes -- not that they should be, but lets assume for some reason out of their control they are stuck with it
there are a lot more situations where standalone systems are the norm ast and uwin came about because of a need for portability on existing plant, the need for a reliable, familiar and reproducable way to monitor and control the plant, and the need for a pathway to preserve parts of the environment when the plant eventually changes re research although uwin and ast are visible parts of att research it does not represent all of the work dgk and I are involved with they are part of a toolbag that lets us quickly gain traction in legacy and new projects, and quickly design, test and propagate new algorithms, usually engineered inside familiar apis On Tue, 28 May 2013 14:32:22 -0400 [email protected] wrote: > Isn't that kind of the point Irek? You're remembering the 80's and this > isn't the 80's. You can do all the same stuff in a VM without the problems > using a host of programs fit for purpose. Don't tell me that you're > putting this in production for big companies, you'd get laughed out on > peer review. > Research for research's sake is fun, sure, but that's all it is. > Doesn't AT&T Research have something better for these really smart people > to work on? _______________________________________________ uwin-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/uwin-users
