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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.realtime,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: TRON (a little long)
Keywords: Japan, TRON, standards, networks, operating systems
Message-ID: <4914@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 7 Jul 89 18:25:38 GMT
References: <382@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> <4628@ficc.uu.net> <926@iraun1.ira.uka.de>
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <926@iraun1.ira.uka.de>, grunwald@Katmandu.ira.uka.de (Grunwald Betr. Tichy) writes:
> To my opinion, you should forget about realtime UNIX, because UNIX can not
> cover the whole terrain of Automation computing at a reasonable price.

That depends on what you define as UNIX. Certainly you can't cram SysV
or BSD into a microcontroller, but there are real-time systems that
implement an appropriate subset of UNIX (OS/9, for example, is a large
version of that).

There's no excuse for not making the larger components of TRON capable
of running UNIX software and supporting UNIX commands, even if the subset
in the microcontrollers doesn't provide 'fork()'.
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