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From: vik@lynx.uucp (Vikram Sohal)
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: Re: Realtime RISC?
Message-ID: <8336@lynx.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 90 16:15:09 GMT
References: <1990Dec4.193740.4430@nbc1.ge.com> <879@hrshcx.csd.harris.com> <61499@bbn.BBN.COM>
Reply-To: vik@lynx.UUCP (Vikram Sohal)
Organization: Lynx Real-Time Systems Inc, Campbell CA
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In article <61499@bbn.BBN.COM> tdonahue@prost.bbn.com (Tim Donahue) writes:
>In article <879@hrshcx.csd.harris.com>, steved@hrshcx (Steve Daukas) writes:
>>
>>Harris has a Real-Time Unix Kernal that runs on a M88100 RISC processor.
>>This was designed for "Hard Real-Time" environments, those needing
>>interrupt response times of less than 5 microseconds and context switch
>>times of less than 50 microseconds.  The Kernal is SVID and SVVS and POSIX.
>>
>>Steve
>

Interesting times; however, what is the worst case task response time on this
system? the context switch time and interrupt response time are only a  
part of the total equation.

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