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From: RAH@IBM.COM ("Russell A. Heise")
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: can an rs/6000 do real time, My IBM rep says so?
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Date: 10 Oct 90 14:15:14 GMT
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 ssw@cica.cica.indiana.edu (Steve Wallace) writes:

 > Our IBM rep is telling me that the RS/6000's AIX can do real time
 > applications.  Specifically, he says setting a proceses priority to the
 > highest value will guarantee that process responding to an interrupt
 > within a fixed about of time.  This sounds totally off-the-wall to me.
 > Can anyone elaborate on the real time capabilities of the rs/6000 , if
 > any.

 Yes, root-owned processes can set themselves to a fixed priority and
 potentially disable most interrupts.  For more information, have your
 IBM rep search through InfoExplorer on his branch RS/6000 on the search
 words "setpri" and "getpri".

Russ Heise, AIX Technical Support, IBM