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It's the only general purpose OS that's both on several planets and usable on commodity computing hardware, as opposed to a real time OS or the custom operating
by akiselev 5y ago
It's the only general purpose OS that's both on several planets and usable on commodity computing hardware, as opposed to a real time OS or the custom operating systems that predated them. They have a much longer history in space: VxWorks has been on every Mars surface mission since the Pathfinder Lander in 1997 including Perseverance, New Horizons flew by Pluto in 2015 running Nucleus OS and RTEMS is on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.