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Re: What do we do with legacy cRIO when we get Athena?

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Originally Posted by ericand View Post
That is good to hear.
My biggest concern is the licensing aspect. As official support tapers off, and moves to the more modern hardware, I don't want to be dependent on time locked licenses for the tools needed to program the legacy hardware.

Do we need a project to create a replacement for vxWorks as the cRIO base OS?

Do we have enough info to make such a project practical?
vxworks doesn't have a time locked license, so you don't have to replace it. Windriver Workbench does. People have already been working on gcc compilers. See http://firstforge.wpi.edu/sf/projects/c--11_toochain
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