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Originally Posted by cbale2000
For me the bigger question is, why doesn't FIRST just ditch the cRio and go with laptop controlled robots?
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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.