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I wrote the SW for quite an extensive DAQ system using pSOS.  pSOS was a
competitor of VxWorks before being swallowed up by them and digested. I
had looked at a variety of OS's before going with pSOS.  The decision to
go with pSOS was, in the end, pushed by the upper management types.  I
will forever try to avoid such a situation in the future.  pSOS was
probably the worst possible choice (except for a RT enhanced version of
Windows) that could have been made.  We decided that pSOS stood for
'Pretty Shi**y Operating System'.  That said, once completed, the system
(consisting of over 15 interacting CPU's and innumerable DAQ-type cards)
would run unattended, sucking up data and controlling the experiment,
for weeks on end.  Basically until something else failed.
-- 
John Trostel
jtrostel at mindspring.com
Atlanta, GA USA


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