Re: Mars Rover Not Responding - Update - NASA Makes Contact With Mars Rover

From: Alf P. Steinbach (alfps_at_start.no)
Date: 01/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:18:35 GMT

On 24 Jan 2004 07:45:20 -0800, eventhelix@hotmail.com (EventHelix.com) wrote:

>It seems to be a software problem. The rover is rebooting frequently.
>
>Who says there is no life on Mars? ... We have bugs.

xWorks, who made the operating system for both this probe and
the previous American one that failed, see
<url: http://www.windriver.com/platforms/platformvdt/>, thinks the
following is a real advantage -- and perhaps so also did NASA:

<quote>
   Reduces time-to-market by cutting integration and testing ...
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

   typically the most time-consuming stages of the development process.
</quote>

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