It's really sad because there is not really much you can do with the old control systems. My team still has an old IFI robot controller lying around and we have 3 cRIOs. If there isn't anything to develop code on, then all that expensive hardware becomes useless. You can't really sell it to raise money because nobody needs it. They just lie around, unused.
These projects are probably going to be the only way to really work with the old control system which is unfortunate. The one thing that I loved about WindRiver was its debugging capabilities which were quite useful. It is sad to see it go.
Alex Brinister