Operating Systems Used for PC-based Control
-- Control Engineering, 11/1/2001
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Operating Systems Used for PC-based Control (% of respondents) | ||
| Present | In three years | |
| Standard Windows NT | 76.2% | 8.9% |
| Windows NT w/extension | 19.5% | 29.1% |
| Windows CE | 6.5% | 22.1% |
| MS-DOS | 23.4% | 8.0% |
| QNX | 5.2% | 4.5% |
| VxWorks | 3.5% | 5.5% |
| Unix | 8.7% | 7.3% |
| Linux | 3.0% | 16.6% |
| Source: Control Engineering with data from IMS Research, 2001 | ||
Though Microsoft Windows NT is established as the dominant operating system for PC-based control, reliability concerns have led some users to seek alternative systems, according to ''The European & North American Markets for PC-Based Control Software'' by Intex Management Services Ltd. (IMS, Wellingborough, Northants, England; Austin, TX). The study found that NT will still dominate, but CE and Linux will begin to challenge it, especially in embedded systems.
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