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I mean how did PTC go from selling solid modelling software for IRIX to hawking an embedded JVM?
by thrownaway2424 11y ago
I mean how did PTC go from selling solid modelling software for IRIX to hawking an embedded JVM?
- nickpsecurity 11y agoHell, I didn't even know they were PTC now. On an acquisition or name-changing spree it seems lol. Aonix developed and marketed the Java technology. Got acquired by Atego and now apparently PTC. You will probably find the Wayback Machine's copy more informative with the non-JS links on left leading to PDF's showing its capabilities: https://web.archive.org/web/20111101211755/http://www.aonix.com/perc.html https://web.archive.org/web/20111101211755/http://www.aonix.... They had standard Java support, a better native API, GC pauses down to 100 microseconds, AOT compilation, and so on. I especially liked how they supported separation kernels like INTEGRITY and non-x86 architectures. The ability to use strong, user-mode isolation on the VM plus obfuscation of codebase and processor ISA makes for high resistance to whatever Internet throws at you. ;) Plus, embedded boards can be really cheap w/ Freescale's doing I/O, crypto, and TCP acceleration. So, I thought it was cool shit that could've benefited mainstream market if they thought of things like this and applied it properly. Could always build, in parallel, a FOSS-based setup in case they pulled out or some other crap that happens with proprietary companies. Can just painlessly move off their stack. Meanwhile, their stack rocked in its domain, still does given numbers I'm seeing in Go etc, and it's worth copying in some ways.