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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How do you tell a wizard?
Message-ID: <11309@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 16 Oct 89 06:37:42 GMT
References: <21153@adm.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <21153@adm.BRL.MIL> Kemp@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes:
>Doug Gwyn writes:
> > Examples:
> > [...]
> >     Need guaranteed real-time response for certain processes.
>Gee Doug, how do you do that one, other than running under Masscomp's
>Real-Time Unix or using a slave processor with something like VRTX or
>VX/Works?

I told you it was a wizard question!

Actually, when John Quarterman and I worked for Geotronics (something
he may not admit to!), we had to solve exactly this problem.
Fortunately we were UNIX wizards, or something close.