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The KISS kernel was written by Valentin Pepelea as an example for the book The Design and Implementation of Realtime Kernels. Valentin is a graduate of the University of Ottawa, 1989, with a degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering Option. His focus was on realtime systems and operating systems. As a 4th year university project, he prototyped virtual memory for the Amiga operating system. He worked as an employee with Commodore-Amiga, Accolade and Ready Systems/Microtec Research, before putting out his shingle as an Embedded Systems Consultant in 1995. His clients have included Toshiba of America, Integrated Systems Inc., Philips Consumer Communications, Creative Design, Inc. and PowerTV. Valentin's professional interests lie mostly in writing and porting realtime kernels and device drivers. He worked at Ready Systems when they developed Spectra, an amazing 3rd generation embedded cross-development architecture. Only Wind River's Tornado comes close to it. Tornado is better in some ways, worse in others. But Valentin has always wanted to be a teacher. Too bad teachers are so badly paid in North America. If you wish to enhance or modify the KISS realtime kernel, you will get free advice and support, whether you are an experienced kernel hacker or a starving student. Otherwise, if you would like to talk to Valentin along the lines of his professional interests, he offers you the free lunch policy. That is, you pay for his lunch, and he talks about whatever interests you, for free. :-) |