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I'm curious where I could read up on or discuss the topic of appropriate operating system selection for certain safety control systems.
FWIW I am not in a position to select control system OS's. I'm a humble observer (and mechanical engineer) for a company that makes safety control systems.
Assuming you have no legacy code or design to deal with; in critical safety control systems how would you select an appropriate OS?
Examples: Nuclear power plants, modern civil and military aircraft, GPS positioning systems for drillships, well blowout control systems.
System stability seems important and revision control seems important. Everything else seems to be derivative.
How do you quality such a system as safe? Redundant? Safe enough to keep thousands of people out of harms way, etc.
I'm curious what the community thinks. Maybe the right question is to ask, what should you avoid at all cost?
FWIW I am not in a position to select control system OS's. I'm a humble observer (and mechanical engineer) for a company that makes safety control systems.
Assuming you have no legacy code or design to deal with; in critical safety control systems how would you select an appropriate OS?
Examples: Nuclear power plants, modern civil and military aircraft, GPS positioning systems for drillships, well blowout control systems.
System stability seems important and revision control seems important. Everything else seems to be derivative.
How do you quality such a system as safe? Redundant? Safe enough to keep thousands of people out of harms way, etc.
I'm curious what the community thinks. Maybe the right question is to ask, what should you avoid at all cost?