***Operating Systems
HP Offers Virtual-Machine Technology to Embedded-device Market
(March 20)
Hewlett-Packard Company announced the availability of its
independently developed virtual-machine technology and class
libraries for the embedded-systems market. HP also announced that
it will license this virtual-machine implementation to select
companies.
Microsoft, the first licensee of the technology, says it will use
the technology to integrate Java programming-language support
with its Windows CE operating system and other Microsoft
products. HP's embedded virtual machine will give vendors the
flexibility to optimize or tune their support for applications
written in the programming language Java to match the
constraints-and-use model of the device.
HP also is shipping Release 1.0 of its half-megabyte-sized
embedded virtual machine. HP's virtual machine is compliant with
the Java virtual-machine specification intended for use in
electronics devices or appliances and in other embedded systems.
Designed for environments with resource constraints, HP's virtual
machine gives developers the flexibility to create a system with
only the specific functionality needed for that product.
www.hp.com
Microware showcased PersonalJava at Java Technology Town
(March 29)
Microware Systems announced PersonalJava running on Microware OS-
9, was showcased in Java Technology Town at the JavaOne Show,
March 24-27, in San Francisco. Microware's Java Technology Town
demo is OS-9 running on a Motorola Hellcat set-top box which
utilizes PersonalJava to deliver MPEG video streams from service
providers via the set-top box to the user. Microware demonstrated
Java and PersonalJava on multiple platforms in several consumer
applications during the show.
Microware's OS-9 also powers the Java-based NEC digital
interactive set-top box, in Hongkong Telecom IMS' interactive
home services. In addition, Java and PersonalJava running on OS-9
are in use by telecommunications leaders, Nortel (Northern
Telecom) and Ericsson in their lines of wireless telephones.
www.microware.com
Microware Announces OS-9 for Communications
(March 9)
Microware Systems Corporation announced that utilizing the
innovations in Microware OS-9 for Communications, like mwSoftStax
-- Microware's unique communications and control framework --
developers can shorten and simplify their development time, thus
speeding their time-to-revenue. mwSoftStax is an integrated
communications and control framework allowing any communications
technology to plug into OS-9, guaranteeing interoperability and
performance solution at the lowest footprint and CPU utilization
for communications products.
Microware OS-9:
-- Secure, process-based, multi-tasking environment for embedded
systems using position independent, re-entrant code modules that
allow the kernel to dynamically load application and/or system
modules. This capability enables systems designers to add or
update software modules across the network during development or
in the field.
mwSoftStax:
-- Microware's high-performance communications subsystem that
supports a wide variety of standard and custom networking
protocols. mwSoftStax's architecture allows portability because
applications can be written independent of the underlying
protocols, device drivers, and network media.
Microware OS-9 LAN Communications Pak:
--Proven and fielded in a wide variety of successful local area
network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) emulation products
connecting to a wide range of network topologies. Provides LAN
connectivity support for mwSoftStax and adds device-level
Ethernet and serial interface capability using PPP and CSLIP.
Microware FasTrak V2.2.1 with Premia Codewright:
--The latest version of Microware's powerful C/C++ development
tool allows logical code creation, automated makefile generation,
fast compilation, high speed download to MBX, robust debugging
and system profiling.
Microware OS-9 for Communications for 68K and X86 development
licenses are available now starting at $25,000. For more
information e-mail info@microware.com; or call
1-800-475-9000.
w.microware.com
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