Re: Reliability spectrum (was Re: Linux 2.2.15pre12)

From: Henning P. Schmiedehausen (hps@tanstaafl.de)
Date: Sun Mar 05 2000 - 17:06:26 EST

chip@valinux.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:

>I'm no expert on life-critical systems, but I've been told that it's
>common for such projects forbid the use of interrupts and dynamic
>memory allocation, so as to increase the system's predictability (at
>the expense of flexibility). If that's true, then Linux will probably
>never end up in charge of airliner control surfaces.

At least on trains they use Windows 3.1 (!) and soon "Embedded NT" for
the status displays for the train driver. I know from one of the guys
who (must) write software for it. They shot down Linux because the
company (for the germans: In Erlangen, you may guess now which
one... ;-) ) is committed to MS-OS.

Hint: Don't step on board of the new german high speed trains...

        Regards
                Henning 

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