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A popular real time operating system for embedded systems from Wind River, Alameda, CA (www.windriver.com). It is used to control a wide variety of products, including network and telecom devices, test and measurement equipment, computer peripherals and consumer products. It is also used in the automotive and aerospace industries for engine control and avionics. Available for a large number of CPU types, applications are created in Wind River's Tornado development environment.

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VxWorks was originally an extension of the VRTX real time OS kernel. Wind River added a file system and integrated development environment (IDM) that made the VRTX operating system "work"able. Later, the VRTX kernel was rewritten. See VRTX.

(operating system)VxWorks - A real-time multitasking operating system from Wind River Systems. Originally it used the VRTX kernel but this has been replaced by Wind River's own "Wind kernel 2.4".

Before version 5.3 VxWorks included a software development environment but this is now called "Tornado".

Latest version: 5.3, as of 1996-11-28.
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for the marketing leading VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS).
WIND RIVER 'TORNADO CERTIFIES' METRO LINK'S X SERVERFOR MIL/AERO AND ... by EDP Weekly's IT Monitor
TimesTen Performance Software has launched a new version of TimesTen, the company's popular in-memory database, for Wind River's VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS).
TIMES TEN TO DELIVER REAL-TIME DATA MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE ON WIND ... by EDP Weekly's IT Monitor
Wind River's collection of software development tools will help device manufacturers focus on building differentiated device applications, understand and test complex projects and accelerate time-to-market by leveraging the deeply instrumented middleware technology in both VxWorks and Wind River Linux platforms.
Wind River Delivers New Upgrades to Its Workbench Development Tools by Business Wire
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