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From: jg@hpldola.HP.COM (Joe Gilray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Micro RTX - questions was Re: Atari slanders Micro RTX and MT C-Shell
Message-ID: <11830079@hpldola.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Aug 90 23:44:45 GMT
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Organization: HP Elec. Design Div. -ColoSpgs
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To answer your questions about Micrortx:

(This is from my head as I don't have the docs here)

1) Micrortx takes only a small amount of memory to run (about 40k)
   so it will run on any atari ST.

2) Programs do NOT need to be recompiled to run under Micrortx as
   it is installed at the interrupt level.  I have found that most
   of the tools I use and the software I've written run fine with
   Micrortx installed.

   In fact I use the MWC msh enviroment to write micrortx programs
   with micrortx installed, this makes developing programs for
   micrortx easy (well I hung the system initially, until I got the
   obvious defects out, but then again I still hang the system
   once in a while while programming under GEM).  I believe Micrortx
   is programmable from virtually any compiler/linker.

3) Micrortx doesn't implement any process protection scheme, but does
   offer signals, message passing, file locking, and other OS extensions.
   It also allows the programmer very low-level access to the machine while
   still being TOS compatible.

4) There is a shareware version of Micrortx available at many archives.

-Joe Gilray