ALMA Memo #286

Choice of RTOS for ALMA - Another View

This is a response to Patrick Wallace's document Real-Time Operating System for ALMA, 8 December 1999.

The problem that we face here is the opposite of an interesting technical challenge. The technical requirements are not extreme and can be met in more than one way. VxWorks and RTLinux are the two possibilities being considered out of a larger number. Patrick demonstrates that RTLinux is technically able to do the job. VxWorks is also recognised as being technically capable, and so we must examine the other, more subjective issues.

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