What OS for Spinrite 7? Roadmap?

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I don’t know how accurate the roadmap that I found is in regards to Steve’s current plans. What I found was

Release 4 - January 17th, 2021

It ways Spinrite 7 will use a 32-bit realtime OS. The first thing that came to mind was QNX, but, I don’t know about it being available anymore after Blackberry and all. Maybe a Linux variant?

And, perhaps Steve might find a chance to update the Roadmap now that 6.1 is out…
 
Would it be too rude of a newbie to ask an approximate ETA for SR7?
 

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I don't know if it's rude to ask, but it would be rude to give you an answer. Steve is a one person shop. Things get done when they get done, and work has not yet started on 7 as 6.1 practically just finished and I think he's giving it some soak time while he pursues some other aspects of GRC. (Recently that entails the documentation and a video to demonstrate 6.1.)

If I had to guess, with no real record of doing so successfully, I would say he will start providing snapshots to his testers in 2026 and maybe the first release of 7 will land in 2027.
 
Dibrom said:
ask an approximate ETA for SR7?
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The question is impossible to answer. :(

There will be too many unknowns, too many potential Gotchas, too many potential distractions/diversions along the way. Thus any estimate/guesstimate/WAG is pretty much guaranteed to be wrong. I'm hoping that Steve will be able to start on SR 7 Pro sometime in the latter half of 2025. That, however, remains to be seen.
 
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