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From: hmp@cive.ri.cmu.edu (Henning Pangels)
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: Re: rmx users (is anybody out there????)
Summary: RMX users are too busy
Message-ID: <6163@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 16 Sep 89 13:48:47 GMT
References: <1989Sep15.183109.24479@ecf.utoronto.ca> <14681@bfmny0.UU.NET>
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In article <14681@bfmny0.UU.NET>, tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
> There are Intel iRMX users out here all right.  You don't hear from
> us very much because the damn thing works.  Beware much discussed
> OS's! :-)

	Actually, the reason you don't hear much from the RMX users is that they
are too busy writing utilities that are provided in other environments. I've
been there. In addition, RMX has this tendency to not be very compatible (at
least in a networking sense) with the rest of the world, so there isn't much
point in its users talking to anyone but each other :-)

Seriously, though, RMX is a very solid, reliable real-time OS. One thing
that can be said is that once you know where to look in the 6+ volumes of
documentation, you'll find what you need. I just wish the development
process wasn't so cumbersome.

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