[scottanderson]

Originally Posted by Jeff Waegelin

Interesting... according to the cRIO description, you can use C/C++ code on the real-time processor, in addition to LabView. The more I read about this, the more sense it seems to make to me. I think this system could allow us to do a lot of interesting new things with I/O, as well as provide a really simple graphical programming interface for new programmers, while still allowing teams to continue learning and using C.

That's the thing... I'm wondering how they will handle the control interface, given that VxWorks is a full OS. There will have to be some sort of interlock, but if the programmers can get into the OS level, how much use is that?