> Now that was a misery, but one I attribute more to the uncaring attitude of the company that wrote the STB's firmware than any inherent problem with their OS

> Now that was a misery, but one I attribute more to the uncaring attitude of the company that wrote the STB's firmware than any inherent problem with their OS (a decade later, critical and customer-affecting race conditions are still present in their code). To be honest, their OS didn't help. Hmmm STMicro-based? :)