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by RogerL 323 days ago
Go check out VxWorks or the like. only 20K a seat, build tools at a similar price, and then oh joy, runtime licenses required to deploy the sw you wrote.

Which are reasonable prices when lives are at risk.

Yes, I know RTOS are not general purpose, this is NOT apples to apples, but that is what that kind of reliability, testing, safety certification, etc. costs.

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Or QNX for the price of Windows, for a certified UNIX.