So many years ago I started my career at a biomedical manufacturer that sold EEG, EMG, polysomnography and transcranial doppler devices. Most of these were buil

So many years ago I started my career at a biomedical manufacturer that sold EEG, EMG, polysomnography and transcranial doppler devices. Most of these were built on some variant of UNIX (SunOS, Unixware, QNX) and were locked down to be pretty secure once networking within hospitals became more common. The new CEO listened to what medical departments wanted, and that was a PC that could perform the clinical functions but also run MS office. So the entire engineering department spent a couple years porting everything to NT. Then you had viruses taking out diagnostic devices. So virus scanners were installed. Now you had latency issues between the amplifier and ADC conversion and display or other issues (I don't remember all of them to be fair). Keep in mind that some of these devices were used in the OR. Now, I'm not saying that Windows was 100% the problem, certainly the idea of multi-use contributed, but we never had any of these issues when we rolled out operating systems that locked down what you could do on the device (technicians couldn't even access the OS unless we told them how) and that we could easily secure.