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Message: [QUOTE="James Kanze, post: 3977971"] Been hearing that for quite some years now. The basic structure of Windows (and Unix, for the most part) doesn't really lend itself to hard real-time; it's not something you can add on top. A lot of applications need a bit more than a PC. Companies are still using computers to manage large sets of data. Like, a million years... Actually, I'd say that the tendancy is going in the opposite direction. Most IT organizations are realizing that one size doesn't fit all, and that you don't necessarily want the same system handling your critical data as you do on the desktop. Reliability improves with time, that's certain, and modern Windows is really pretty stable (which wasn't the case with NT, for example). But the other systems are aging as well. Linux is becoming stable---it's already stable enough for a lot of applications---and it scales a lot better than Windows. Obviously, you don't live in the real world, or at least, you're not aware of what's going on around you. Anyone restricting his choices to just Windows is an amateur, who doesn't understand the real world. Well, I know a lot more than just C++. And I agree that C++ is "wounded", in some ways. But not morally. If for no other reason than the fact that for most applications, there's really no competitor---about the only possible one would be Ada 95, and that doesn't seem to have caught on. [/QUOTE]