Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 17:56:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Johann Visagie <johann@egenetics.com>, <Freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Subject: Re: corporate announcement Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0104051754180.54885-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010405160153.00e5b4d0@localhost>
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On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Brett Glass wrote: > At 11:45 AM 4/5/2001, John Baldwin wrote: > > >The pathfinder ran on a version of VxWorks. > > Yes. Though it was reported at the time that the system was > unstable and had to be rebooted by a watchdog timer at regular > intervals. Fortunately, the embedded system designers who created > the probe were smart enough to build one in. Heh, you'd have to be pretty stupid not to design a watchdog into any system that is sitting outside of easy reach, no matter how stable you think the operating system is. :-) -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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