Notes from the meeting of March 19.

B. Sahr has produced a document surveying known operating systems for the
TriCore device.  He considers the most viable candidates to be
- Nucleus PLUS by Accelerated Technology Inc.
   http://www.acceleratedtechnology.com/ATI/nucleus.php
- ThreadX by Express Logic
   http://www.expresslogic.com
- vxWorks by Wind River
- JBed by Esmertec
   http://www.esmertec.com

He will pursue the first two, with an intent of having a sufficient report
by April 2.  B. Clark will look into vxWorks.  K. Ryan will pursue JBed
(or other java oriented systems).

W. Koski asked whether the approach the group has in mind, of running 
technician screens within the MIB, is really better than having the MIB
serve only a communication function.  K. Ryan answered that he believes
that software modularization is best served by this technique.  B. Clark
said it is attractive to have devices be more-or-less standalone systems,
although there may be problems with security, since the MIB operating
system will probably not enforce security.

K. Ryan has borrowed a monoboard computer upon which to demonstrate the
JBed operating system - not yet running, but close.

B. Rowen attended the Real-Time convention and show last week, and has 
handout literature on many of the OS candidates.  In particular, he is
arranging evaluation copies of the ATI tools.