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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.26
EAN num: 9780130354730
ISBN number: 0130354732
Label: Prentice Hall PTR
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 399
Printing Date: December 05, 2002
Publishing house: Prentice Hall PTR
Sale Popularity Level: 789542
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Embedded Software Development with eCos shows developers and managers the advantages of using eCos -- the Embedded Configurable Operating System from Red Hat - over proprietary or commercial embedded operating systems. As an Open Source solution, eCos provides a low-cost, royalty free option for embedded software development. Anthony Massa shows how eCos, and the eCos development environment, has all of the features and functionality to meet the needs of almost all commercial embedded system requirements. Massa provides an understanding of how to use the open-source licensing and royalty free nature of eCos in order to eliminate high startup and per unit costs associated with many of the proprietary real-time operating systems on the market today. Embedded systems are operating systems that must operate with a very small footprint (usually less than 100KB of space) and must be self-contained. Most companies use either proprietary solutions or expensive commercial solutions. eCos is the very first powerful, royalty-free Open Source solution, from Red Hat.
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I am happy to report that the printing problems have finally been resolved. I have reviewed the latest copies of the book and the text seems fine.
Sorry about this.
Thanks,
Anthony Massa
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I apologize for the lack of effort on the part of the publisher. Please know that I have nothing to do with the publishing process at this point. I have been begging Prentice Hall to fix these errors and have forwarded on the comments I have received from readers. It seems these comments are falling on deaf ears. Please contact Prentice Hall directly if you receive a book that contains printing errors.
I hope the content in the book is still valuable to all eCos developers.
Thanks,
Anthony
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To follow up on the printing. The copy I got was very, very bad. Pretty much every page has multiple printing errors making the book very difficult to read and in some places you need to understand the content already to make headway.
The book used to ship with a CD. Now there's a sheet saying to go look at phptr.com for a download. I could not find the CD download, but I did find the book in pdf. At least the pdf can be read.
Bad job Prentice Hall!
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Be aware. The current printing of this book has some serious typesetting problems. Nearly every page has "garbled" text where letters overlap. The publisher responded by stating: "The book which you are referring is now temporary unavailable due to major printing errors."
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I recommend this book not only to those who are just beginning to use eCos but also ameatures in the world of RTOS. The audience is treated like a 'child' as Anthony goes on to explain step by step. The accompanying software is complete and gets perfectly installed as described.
There are good illustrations accompanying the text that help in understanding the text. It is written more like a story rather than a manual, so it is difficult to put it down once you start reading it.
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This book gives a step by step method of getting an embedded system up and running using ecos OS. Explains very well in simple terminology "how to put various components together to create what you need". In short, a very good book on ecos in nutshell.
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