Why? The Siemens Magnetom line are perfectly good scanners. The older machines run Windows XP and the newer ones run 7. I've never seen one fail for OS related reasons. Did you actually have a point to make with this, or are you just trolling?
Although even there I would expect most of them to be running some sort of unix.
As far as satellite OSes go, I would expect something better than linux or embedded OSes. It needs to be a nuclear/medical grade RTOS with failover capabilities on every codepath and piece of hardware. Otherwise what is the point when a stray bit of cosmic radiation flips or damages something important?
And yet every CT/MRI/X-ray machine I've ever used was running Windows 2000, XP or 7 with the exception of a single GE portable x-ray machine that was unstable as hell...
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Why? The Siemens Magnetom line are perfectly good scanners. The older machines run Windows XP and the newer ones run 7. I've never seen one fail for OS related reasons. Did you actually have a point to make with this, or are you just trolling?
Although even there I would expect most of them to be running some sort of unix.
As far as satellite OSes go, I would expect something better than linux or embedded OSes. It needs to be a nuclear/medical grade RTOS with failover capabilities on every codepath and piece of hardware. Otherwise what is the point when a stray bit of cosmic radiation flips or damages something important?
And yet every CT/MRI/X-ray machine I've ever used was running Windows 2000, XP or 7 with the exception of a single GE portable x-ray machine that was unstable as hell...