RSX11M+
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A few years later, after numerous "Development Rescue Jobs", I was rewarded with a permanent management position by a previous client. A couple of highly stressful years ensued, in which I found myself moving further and further from hardware activities.
This would end when we "bought" a Motorola 860-T based design that, as it turned out, didn't work much at all. In the subsequent year, I completely re-designed the board , first to make it work, and then to remove unusable features and replace them with working ones. I changed the type of dynamic memory it used, replaced the 860-T [which became unavailable due to a military requirement] with the 860-P, which was a superior part nobody in the industry had yet qualified for their designs. It's basically an Ethernet router with an embedded application which once ran in a windows based server.
We used vxWorks as an OS, developing under TORNADO.
The therapy I received from re-designing this board, saved my life. Were it not for this, I would have had almost no self-satisfaction from that whole work experience.
This would end when we "bought" a Motorola 860-T based design that, as it turned out, didn't work much at all. In the subsequent year, I completely re-designed the board , first to make it work, and then to remove unusable features and replace them with working ones. I changed the type of dynamic memory it used, replaced the 860-T [which became unavailable due to a military requirement] with the 860-P, which was a superior part nobody in the industry had yet qualified for their designs. It's basically an Ethernet router with an embedded application which once ran in a windows based server.
We used vxWorks as an OS, developing under TORNADO.
The therapy I received from re-designing this board, saved my life. Were it not for this, I would have had almost no self-satisfaction from that whole work experience.