Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!pur-ee!pur-phy!piner From: piner@pur-phy (Richard Piner) Newsgroups: comp.realtime Subject: Re: Real-time UNIX ? Message-ID: <2359@pur-phy> Date: 13 Jul 89 20:03:39 GMT References: Reply-To: piner@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Richard Piner) Distribution: comp Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN Lines: 34 In article mlm@cs.brown.edu writes: > > We at the Robotics group at Brown University are putting > together a standalone robot to use as a platform for research > in robot architectures and spatial reasoning. At the moment, > the CPU on our robot is an IBM AT. The first question is, > are there any real-time UNIX-like operating systems for the > IBM AT that you people would recommend we use? > > Our longer term plans are to switch to a 680x0-based system > running on the VME bus, mainly because of the improvement > in processing speed we would likely buy this way. Second > question: any CPU boards you would recommend? It would be > nice to have a clear migration path from our current AT-based > system to the future 680x0-based system, so a real-time OS > that would be available for both would be a win. However, > I realize it may not be possible. Mail never works, so I'll go ahead and post this. Contact Microware. I think OS9/68000 may be the system of choice for you. Microware's address is; Microware Systems Corp. 1900 N.W. 114th Street Des Moines, Iowa 50322 Phone: 515-224-1929 Ask them for their source book listing vendors. There are a couple of companies that make 68000 based cards that plug into AT boxes and run OS9/68K. Then ungrading to VME/OS9 would be easier. In the VME world, I've found Heurikon to be top notch. R. Piner (Microware is also connected to this network.)