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> > and within a second has come fully ready, and operating. Yo
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 01:32:21PM +1000, Murray Taylor wrote:
> I can only think of one other point for this...
> Interrupt latency. Depending on what you are attempting to do,
> the variable nature of interrupt responses could be an issue.
> I.e. if the system becomes io bound during a data capt
On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 10:38:54PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>
> There's another issue and that is POST on standard PC hardware. POST
> takes too long. For example the auto industry has agreed on a standard
> time that a car engine computer must be fully operational, it is very
> short, no
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> It's only as good as the dri
eads.
mjt
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> It's only as good as
It's only as good as the drivers you write to control the robot. It
also depends on just how critical your "critical situations" refers
to.
In situations where human life is directly dependent upon the
integrity of the system, a modular kernel design has traditionally
been preferred over the mono
I've read some really good things about FreeBSD, especially its virus
resistance and reliability.
Will FreeBSD work on a robot that has to be trusted in critical situations?
Kevin
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