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I've just finished reading The Martian (now a major motion picture etc...) and VxWorks actually gets a name check in the book. I haven't seen the film yet, but will look out for it when I do.
I've worked on VxWorks-based systems in the past and it was certainly a reliable, compact and well documented OS. It was bloody expensive though, and they had a weird licensing model where you were supposed to pay a fee per "project", which was something of a loosely defined concept as I recall.
That was back in the day when you might use VxWorks in consumer products. These days it's all Linux. I guess that this is part of the problem for Wind River.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
