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Re: Who used Driver Station for Vision?

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Originally Posted by cbale2000 View Post
For me the bigger question is, why doesn't FIRST just ditch the cRio and go with laptop controlled robots?
Given how much timing jitter we have now, I can only imagine how bad it would be if we ran a non-RTOS.

Or how bad the boot times would be.

<rant>I would be very, very happy with an embedded system. Something like a PowerPC or ARM that has a good RTOS without any extra junk, just raw hardware access, and an Ethernet stack.</rant>

The key to getting good execution timing and RT performance is to reduce overhead. Going to a non-RTOS without a real-time coprocessor would just be terrible for timing and performance.
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