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                    WHO WE ARE 
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HighTec EDV-Systeme GmbH was founded in early 1982
and employs more than twenty electrical engineers,
computer scientists and mathematicians. We
primarily work in the fields of process control,
process visualization, automation and connectivity
(TCP/IP, X.25). 

   Our strategic product is PXROS, the Portable
eXtendable Realtime Operating System. The current
version 4.0 provides the following features and
highlights (amongst others):

   - object-oriented microkernel architecture 
   - at no time PXROS needs to lock interrupts 
   - full interrupt transparency (i.e., ISRs don't
     have to take precautions imposed by PXROS)
   - optional multi-processor (MP) extension 
   - scalable from small embedded control (EC)
     applications to a full-featured realtime, 
     Unix-flavoured operating sytem (including 
     file system(s), TCP/IP, sockets, X11, ...)

It is currently available for the Intel 80x86
CPUs, National Semicoductor's 32000 CPUs,
Motorola's 68000 CPUs and Siemens C16x MCUs. Since
PXROS is highly portable, even more platforms
(POWER, SPARC, ...) are likely to be supported
soon.

   Furthermore, we just finished work on a
PXROS-based process interface, which allows one
to run statically linked Linux executables along
with applications demanding true realtime
capability. 
