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Yeah I don't even do embedded work or anything real-time and even I know that in applications like this you should probably be using something like Green Hills

• BugsJustFindMe 8y ago
  (no judgement) Given that you've never worked in the field, what makes you think that?
  • tcoff91 8y ago
    It has a long history of use in Aerospace and military applications.
    • kjs3 8y ago
      Which this isn't.
    • BugsJustFindMe 8y ago
      That's a reasonable starting assertion, I guess, but all kinds of things have long histories of use without precluding the validity of using other things. Sometimes things get used because of inertia. Sometimes things get used because people who don't really know the difference say things like "we definitely must use X" (historically X might be a megacorp technology company like SAP or Oracle or IBM) despite Y being just as good or better. For instance, did you know that Windows XP has a long history of being used in military embedded devices that store user data (on a writeable, obviously, FAT32 file system) where the way you turn them off is to just cut the power? I shit you not. I've seen state-of-the-art Navy-used sonars where the internal computer was running Windows, and you would transfer data off of the internal hard drive by FTP over Ethernet, and it had no on/off switch, just power or no power.
• mwfunk 8y ago
  I'm amazed that anyone would think that. I've worked on all sorts of embedded systems and worked with a many more people who've worked on far more than I, and RT Linux was very common and suitable for these sorts of things 10-15 years ago, never mind now.