From: Bdale Garbee Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 04:24:15 +0000 (-0600) Subject: celebrate! X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?p=web%2Fgag.com;a=commitdiff_plain;h=c5ab75abf47515f29fbb154ca79a61d891638c79;hp=a28774c3f04289ea973cb546fa4638eab8bfb597 celebrate! --- diff --git a/bdale/blog/posts/Tenth_Anniversary_of_AltOS.mdwn b/bdale/blog/posts/Tenth_Anniversary_of_AltOS.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8b06d50 --- /dev/null +++ b/bdale/blog/posts/Tenth_Anniversary_of_AltOS.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +[[!tag tags/rockets]] +In the early days of the collaboration between Bdale Garbee and Keith +Packard that later became [Altus Metrum](http://altusmetrum.org), the +software for [TeleMetrum](http://altusmetrum.org/TeleMetrum) was +crafted as an application running on top of an existing open source +RTOS. It didn't take long to discover that the RTOS was ill-suited to +our needs, and Keith had to re-write various parts of it to make things +fit in the memory available and work at all. + +Eventually, Bdale idly asked Keith how much of the RTOS he'd have to +rewrite before it would make sense to just start over from scratch. Keith +took that question seriously, and after disappearing for a day or so, the +first code for [AltOS](http://altusmetrum.org/AltOS) was committed to +[revision control](http://git.gag.com/?p=fw/altos;a=summary) on 12 April +2009. + +Ten years later, AltOS runs on multiple processor architectures, and is +at the heart of all [Altus Metrum](http://altusmetrum.org) products.