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  Visit to MDRobotics/SPAR
 
Hey folks, Last night I visited MacDonald Dettwiler Robotics (MDRobotics), formerly known as SPAR Aerospace, the Canadian company that brought you the Canadarm Remote Manipulator System. The Toronto chapter of INCOSE, the International Council on (...) (22 years ago, 27-Sep-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  RE: Visit to MDRobotics/SPAR
 
(...) Overkill on the OS, but then again it's off the shelf so you don't need to spend 1 or 2 man years designing, coding, and testing.... (...) Yes!!! Small teams of dedicated smart people can make all the difference. Cheers, Ralph (22 years ago, 27-Sep-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 
  Re: Visit to MDRobotics/SPAR
 
(...) They specifically pointed out they used VxWorks because of being able to program in C++. I've noticed a lot of their job ads etc stress object oriented programming experience. Apparently the older arms are done with much lower level (...) (22 years ago, 27-Sep-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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