• Catsrules@lemmy.ml
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    Very robust OS designed for Embedded applications.

    Most noteworthy is NASA used it on almost all of their mars rovers. (I think they switched to Linux on their very last one but I could be wrong)

    It is used in a bunch of random stuff you have probably used it without realizing.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VxWorks#Notable_uses

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      If I recall correctly, only the helicopter runs Linux and the rover still runs an RTOS (presumably VxWorks). I remember reading a bunch of posts on Linux blogs about Ingenuity being the first time Linux was run on another planet.