Comment by woadwarrior01
6 years ago
That's the first thought that came to my mind. What are the odds that they've got an embedded CPU running Win32 somewhere in the aircraft? :)
Context[1] for anyone not familiar with the old Win32 APIs.
[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/sysinfoap...
The system in question runs VxWorks.
"for reasons the directive did not go into, the 787's common core system (CCS) – a Wind River VxWorks realtime OS product..."