From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24885 invoked by alias); 21 May 2011 07:11:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 24873 invoked by uid 22791); 21 May 2011 07:11:50 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from tirion.supremecenter202.com (HELO tirion.supremecenter202.com) (209.25.195.243) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 21 May 2011 07:11:34 +0000 Received: from [77.28.174.5] (port=58001 helo=[192.168.1.71]) by tirion.supremecenter202.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QNgLV-0006DX-Do for ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org; Sat, 21 May 2011 07:11:33 +0000 Message-ID: <4DD765A1.4000309@siva.com.mk> Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 09:59:00 -0000 From: Ilija Kocho User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 ThunderBrowse/3.3.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org References: <4DD66968.9040809@ecoscentric.com> In-Reply-To: <4DD66968.9040809@ecoscentric.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org Subject: Re: [ECOS] eCos on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer X-SW-Source: 2011-05/txt/msg00062.txt.bz2 Cheers Paul Would be nice if such news (or links to) regarding (free) eCos get posted also in ecos.sourceware.org news. Btw. have you been able to take a picture? Regards Ilija On 20.05.2011 15:15, Paul Beskeen wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Thought some of you might be interested to hear about a small $1.5 > billion dollar scientific experiment that uses eCos. The final mission > of the Space Shuttle Endeavour lifted the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer > cosmic ray detector up to its home on the International Space Station. > eCos is used in its main data acquisition and control computers. > > You can read about it in this article. > http://www.ecoscentric.com/news/press-110519.shtml > > The project has been in gestation for a long time. They started work > using a Red Hat eCos release back in circa 2001-2. So kudos to all the > eCos old-timers from the Red Hat days - Alex, Bart, Daniel, Gary, Jifl, > John, Mark and Nick. There's a bit of you orbiting the earth every 90 > minutes or so. > > Cheers, Paul. > -- > Paul Beskeen, Chairman & Director of Engineering > http://www.ecoscentric.com/ > -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss