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From: scott@nbc1.ge.com (Scott Barman)
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: Realtime RISC?
Message-ID: <1990Dec4.193740.4430@nbc1.ge.com>
Date: 4 Dec 90 19:37:40 GMT
Reply-To: scott@nbc1.GE.COM (Scott Barman)
Organization: National Broadcasting Company, Inc., New York
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It looks like I am finally getting the folks here to get PCs off the
brain and considering doing some realtime work on more sane platforms!
We (well, me) are considering processors and the VME bus.  I can get
enough support for an MVME-147 based system because a vendor uses it in
their product.

However, I was looking at a few things and noticed that there seems to
be a lack of realtime software/operating systems for RISC processor.
Personally, I am not to thrilled with SPARC (not counting the 4/110 I
live on daily), but I have only seen a few offerings for it.  I have
seen processor boards using the AM29000 but no realtime support.

I am curious (because I could be looking in the wrong places), are there
realtime operating systems/software/development environments for RISC
processors?  Is there a good source that would tell me (a cataloge) what
hardware (VME based) is available using RISC CPUs?

Thanks!
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