The evolution of MML/MME towards, real time and heterogeneous systems

MML (Multi Micro Language) is a modular, strongly-typed language for concurrent real-time applications, and MME (Multi Micro Environment) is its host-target-based development environment. MML´s history goes back to the late 1970s when 8-bit microprocessors had become available for embedded systems. Since then, the MML/MME community has consistently and continuously revised both the language and CASE models and tools in order to adapt to technological changes in hardware and software practice. Industrial experiences and comparisons to other real-time languages (such as Ada 95) suggested new constructs and features for time control, improving MML´s fitness for real-time embedded systems. Operability on the field has been improved by the new PC-based version of MME (MME lite), and by the new run-time kernel running on the Windows 95 operating system.