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I first encountered Ampro (and PC/104) while working on mobile robots back in 2001. Embedded systems were lagging quite far behind desktop and laptop performanc

by jpm_sd 5y ago

I first encountered Ampro (and PC/104) while working on mobile robots back in 2001. Embedded systems were lagging quite far behind desktop and laptop performance at the time. We were running soft-real-time control on a 486! Compiling code on-board (regrettable, but sometimes necessary) took hours!

yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
> Compiling code on-board (regrettable, but sometimes necessary) took hours! Why was that necessary? (Not doubting, just curious)
- jpm_sd 5y ago
  The short answer is: robot in the field, cross-compilation environment not easily portable.
sriram_sun 5y ago
Aah! Backported VxWorks 5.1 to this back in '08 or something. Still used in a bunch of medical devices I bet.