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From: nigel@modcomp.UUCP (Nigel Gamble)
Newsgroups: comp.realtime,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Realtime and UNIX (Re: An opportunity for Commodore (Re: Windows without Front/Back gadgets))
Message-ID: <187@modcomp.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 89 05:23:41 GMT
References: <104@amix.commodore.com>
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in article <104@amix.commodore.com>, ford@amix.commodore.com (Mike "Ford" Ditto) says:
> "Unix" and "real-time" are orthogonal concepts.  You can have either
> one without the other, or neither, or both.  With AmigaDos we
> technically have neither, although we are close enough on both sides
> to do some good things.  With a particular implementation of Unix,
> real-time capability might or might not exist.

A realtime UNIX operating system does exist!  It is called REAL/IX and
it is MODCOMP's port of System V R3.  It runs on MODCOMP's 68030-based
9700 series.  It is fully compatible with the standard Motorola port
of UNIX SVR3 (it will run Motorola UNIX/SYSV68 binaries), but it has
a fully preemptive kernel and all the other necessary attributes  of
a realtime o/s.  (MODCOMP, with its proprietary operating system MAX,
has been in the realtime business for 20 years).

Perhaps Commodore should licence REAL/IX for the Amiga? 
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