Ian W,
The CCS would appear to be a single computer that allows the programs to play in the one big sand-box. This is not a dedicated firmware system on a VME board.
Wow, that would surprise me, I thought CCS was a low level communications architecture of software and hardware components (fibre, busses, routers and endpoint hardware) implementing the base network protocols and higher level transport functions. I didn't think CCS was a sandbox system and certainly not a single computer.