Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!rafos!skip
From: skip@rafos.UUCP (Skip Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: Re: My IBM rep says that the RS/6000/w AIX is realtime, is this true?
Message-ID: <471@rafos.UUCP>
Date: 6 Sep 90 23:16:12 GMT
References: <1793@abvax.UUCP> <467@rafos.UUCP> <4192@crash.cts.com>
Organization: School of Oceanography, URI, Narragansett, RI
Lines: 23

In article <4192@crash.cts.com> jburnes@crash.cts.com (Jim Burnes) writes:
>
>Skip:
>
>About your question about the RS/6000 and AIX, I really don't think the
>thing has what most sentient engineers mean when they say real-time.
>
>(stuff deleted ...)
>
>Hope I didnt insult your intelligence or mine with this little explanation.


	I guess I sounded a bit flip,  I DID understand that the RS/6000
wasn't real-time, in fact I had a good time making the IBM guys squirm when
forcing them to admit it !

	Not insulted at all (thick skin).

-- 
Skip Carter			UUCP:	uunet!rafos!skip
School of Oceanography	    INTERNET:   skip@rafos.gso.uri.edu
University of Rhode Island     Phone:   401-792-6519
Narragansett, RI 02882