< operating system > A real-time multitasking operating system from Wind River Systems . Originally it used the VRTX kernel but this has been replaced by Wind River's own "Wind kernel 2.4".
Before version 5.3 VxWorks included a software development environment but this is now called "Tornado".
Current version: 5.3, as of 1996-11-28.
(1996-11-29)