Fred, Do you know how many RTOS are there in this world? All that I can say is that I don't have enough fingers and toes to count them all. In the book "Operating Systems Concepts" by Silberchatz and Galvin, you will find information on RTOS, when to use them, when not to use them. I don't think there are many home users who will have the type of work suitable for RTOS. Regards, Kenneth Tan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ C. J. Kenneth Tan E-mail: cjtan@acm.org Telephone: 1-403-220-8038 cjtan@ieee.org 1-403-606-4257 URL: <A HREF="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~tanc"><A HREF="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~tanc</A">http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~tanc</A</A>> Facsimile: 1-403-284-1980 "An engineer made programmer is one who attempts to solve a problem, A programmer made engineer is one who knows how to solve a problem." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Fred A. Miller wrote:
It's 100% POSIX compliant, and there's VERY little UNIX code that can't be made to run on it. Now, I'm not advocating QNX or Linux....not the point I was making. QNX has a niche market, one where there's NO competition because of the real-time demands.
Fred
C. J. Kenneth Tan wrote:
Yes, but QNX is an RTOS. You got to know what do RTOS gives you, before you commit on an RTOS.
Kenneth Tan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ C. J. Kenneth Tan E-mail: cjtan@acm.org Telephone: 1-403-220-8038 cjtan@ieee.org 1-403-606-4257 URL: <A HREF="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~tanc"><A HREF="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~tanc</A">http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~tanc</A</A>> Facsimile: 1-403-284-1980
"An engineer made programmer is one who attempts to solve a problem, A programmer made engineer is one who knows how to solve a problem." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Fred A. Miller wrote:
jonathan@aracnet.net wrote:
On 25-Jul-98 Michael Lankton wrote:
It will eventually be usable, but will it matter? I can't see GNU developers pulling support for Linux because they have their own kernel.
There's also freedows, or any of the message-passing OS variants that are a little more revolutionary...
If you want "revolutionary," take a GOOD gander at QNX!! 'Fastest micro-kernel, message passing, distributed processing OS for the Intel platform! You can imagine what task switches are for a good Pentium II, considering that the old version of QNX would task switch on a 20Mhz P-5 at OVER 20,000 a sec!
Fred
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