I and a partner founded Micro Digital in 1975 as one of the first microprocessor design companies. Our first project was based upon an 8-bit 8080 with a 2 MHz clock rate, 16 KB of EPROM memory, and 4 KB of RAM. The 8080 chip had only 6,000 transistors! Assembly language programming was done via a model 33 ASR Teletype connected to a timesharing service. By 1989, I had tired of designing products for other companies and decided to do my own product, a real-time multitasking kernel called smx. Over the years, smx grew into the SMX RTOS with substantial middleware and support for a large number of processors. Recently I have been the architect and primary developer of SecureSMX.