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From: srp@modcomp.UUCP (Steve Pietrowicz)
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: Re: Realtime and UNIX (also, development on Amiga?)
Message-ID: <189@modcomp.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 89 13:14:51 GMT
References: <531@xdos.UUCP>
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in article <531@xdos.UUCP>, doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) says:
] 
] In article <104@amix.commodore.com> ford@amix.commodore.com (Mike "Ford" Ditto) writes:
]>If you mean there aren't enough programmers here to implement a
]>real-time OS from scratch in this decade, you're probably right.  But
]>Commodore has other resources; for example such a system could be
]>licensed.
] 
] Yes. For instance, Lynx OS (Campbell, CA) looks like it might be a good
] candidate.  They rewrote the kernel from scratch to support real time issues,
] and it apparently conforms to reasonable Unix standards documents (let's
] not get sidetracked into discussing how "standard" such things are) and
] claims to run unmodified Unix binaries.

Unfortunately, a kernel re-written from scratch is much harder to port 
to the platform that Commodore currently has (underline that last part)  :V)
than something that started out as a System V kernel to begin with.  I
don't think Commodore would like to toss everything again either.  Once
was OK, especially since they went to System V 4.0.  Tossing everything
again would be a big big mistake, especially since they would toss 4.0 out
the window to go back a rev.  Better to stick with the standards than the
hybrids.

Besides, there are better realtime solutions available.  :*)

] Doug Merritt		{pyramid,apple}!xdos!doug
] Member, Crusaders for a Better Tomorrow		Professional Wildeyed Visionary
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