Johnson, Tracy wrote:
>> But it doesn't.  It says it uses Java to send commands to the
>> operating system of the rover.
>
> Yes it does, it said thus, word-for-word in the introductory
> paragraph:
>
> "The Mars Rovers devices, developed by the NASA Jet Propulsion
> Laboratory (JPL) in conjunction with Wind River, use Java as a
> low-cost, easy-to-use operating system."

Why it sure it does.  I guess I dismissed it after reading the whole article
and knowing that Wind River wrote the embedded stuff.  Here they are using
operating system in a non-computer sense:  i.e., the system that operates
the rover.  Maybe controlling system would have been a better choice of
words.

That said, I do find it quite remarkable that the software very interesting
and this is not a demo applet, it gets real work done.  Yes, you can do this
in many programming languages and OSs but I see nothing wrong with Sun
blowing their own horn here.

> The whole release was not forwarded to the here, only the banner and
> paragraphs 2, 3, and 4.  If one never goes to the link, one can read
> into it something that was not the original intent (as I did.)  One
> has to go paragraph 1 (which wasn't sent here,) following the
> introduction to read that.

I have this quirk that I try to be safe about posting too much content and
sticking to some fair-use size.  This may lead to some misunderstandings I
see.  I'll try to pick the paragraphs better.

Sorry for the confusion.

Mark W.

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