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Re: When exactly do you choose to use a RTOS (instead of a non-OS approach)?

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Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> writes:
> It depends on your appetite for indeterminacy; I say if
> you're leaning on the timer tick to operate, you have multiple
> latent bugs.

A complex enough program will have latent bugs no matter what.  If the
application critically depends on having no bugs, that dependence is a
bug in its own right.  A reliable system has to be able to recover from
faults including software bugs.  Erlang/OTP is set up so if something
goes wrong in an operation, the process handling it crashes and a
supervision process restarts it so things are in a known state again.
This is enough to recover from quite a lot of unexpected problems.  You
look at the crash log the next day, figure out what happened, and roll
out a fix.  You can even upgrade the software while it's still running.

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Re: When exactly do you choose to use a RTOS (instead of a non-OS approach)? StateMachineCOM <statemachineguru@gmail.com> - 2018-01-05 09:47 -0800
  Re: When exactly do you choose to use a RTOS (instead of a non-OS approach)? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2018-01-05 11:51 -0800
    Re: When exactly do you choose to use a RTOS (instead of a non-OS approach)? StateMachineCOM <statemachineguru@gmail.com> - 2018-01-05 15:30 -0800
      Re: When exactly do you choose to use a RTOS (instead of a non-OS approach)? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2018-01-05 16:34 -0800
        Re: When exactly do you choose to use a RTOS (instead of a non-OS approach)? Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2018-01-05 21:34 -0600
          Re: When exactly do you choose to use a RTOS (instead of a non-OS approach)? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2018-01-05 19:52 -0800
            Re: When exactly do you choose to use a RTOS (instead of a non-OS approach)? Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2018-01-06 16:42 -0600
              Re: When exactly do you choose to use a RTOS (instead of a non-OS approach)? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2018-01-08 13:45 -0800
    Re: When exactly do you choose to use a RTOS (instead of a non-OS approach)? Tom Gardner <spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2018-01-05 23:51 +0000
      Re: When exactly do you choose to use a RTOS (instead of a non-OS approach)? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2018-01-05 16:35 -0800
        Re: When exactly do you choose to use a RTOS (instead of a non-OS approach)? Tom Gardner <spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2018-01-06 09:45 +0000
          Re: When exactly do you choose to use a RTOS (instead of a non-OS approach)? upsidedown@downunder.com - 2018-01-06 12:32 +0200
            Re: When exactly do you choose to use a RTOS (instead of a non-OS approach)? Tom Gardner <spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2018-01-06 11:16 +0000
              Re: When exactly do you choose to use a RTOS (instead of a non-OS approach)? upsidedown@downunder.com - 2018-01-07 13:35 +0200
                Re: When exactly do you choose to use a RTOS (instead of a non-OS approach)? Tom Gardner <spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2018-01-07 13:55 +0000
            Re: When exactly do you choose to use a RTOS (instead of a non-OS approach)? Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2018-01-06 16:49 -0600
              Re: When exactly do you choose to use a RTOS (instead of a non-OS approach)? Tom Gardner <spamjunk@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2018-01-07 01:39 +0000

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