[ECOS] Re: ECOS - MIPS

[Grant Edwards <grante at visi dot com>]

In gmane.os.ecos.general, you wrote:
> Cuma 24 Haziran 2005 05:08 ös tarihinde, Grant Edwards ?unlar? yazm??t?: 
>> In gmane.os.ecos.general, you wrote:
>> > I just mention that eCOS didnt fullfill my needs. The only
>> > thing eCOS provides is using reusable components like the ones
>> > in visual programming languages.
>>
>> Huh?  I've no idea what you mean. What are "visual" programming
>> languages?  Things like LabVIEW and IBM Data Explorer?
>
> - I said visual programming languages. Not tools!  If you say
> "tools" that means you have an idea. This is a contradiction,
> isn't it ? :P

Sorry, I have no idea what that means.

> Some visual programming environments have component based SW
> development, like VB.

The VB with which I am most familiar is Victoria Bitter.  After
googling for "VB" I'm guessing you're talking about Visual
Basic?

> You drag and drop components, use them, change them. I just
> wanted to mean that eCOS components are, in mentality, like
> that. I didn't want to say that "eCOS" is bad.

This is all about the configuration tool's UI design?  You want
to drag and drop stuff instead of using the tree widget?

> An advantage of eCOS is its components. It includes many
> components. Having components is not a bad idea.It is not new
> also... Isnt it ? Why do you misunderstand me ? May be your
> english is not so good... Go and take courses. I advice you...

Yea, that's it.  My English isn't good enough.

>> You probably find it "more usable" simply because it has so
>> many fewer available features.  It includes driver models for
>> no peripherals, no networking, no filesystem, and only one
>> scheduler.  You should be comparing uCOS to just the eCos
>> kernel with about half of it's available features removed.
>
> - eCOS is much more bigger, it is still groving. There may be
> many commercial products that uses it.  But there are OS'es
> that do the same on the embedded world ( May be you will
> misunderstand me again. Let me explain. I mean kernel, not
> components... ). I just wanted to give an example. uCOS is not
> apple and eCOs is not orange. I am not a child that plays
> operating systems on the afternoons. I am not a uCOS fan or an
> anti-eCOS man. I just tried eCOS and saw that it is not really
> configurable. This is my idea. I wish it changes in the
> future...

You're right.  My English must not be up to snuff.  I'll bow
out of the discussion and let those with better English handle
it.

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