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From: rdthomps@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Robert D. Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Real-time data acq. in OS/2
Message-ID: <6262@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 2 May 91 21:47:54 GMT
References: <1991Apr21.194928.8267@ux1.cso.u <2nsgwa=@rpi.edu> <4896@vaxwaller.UUCP>
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In article <4896@vaxwaller.UUCP> lefko@vaxwaller.UUCP (Marty Lefkowitz) writes:
>In article <2nsgwa=@rpi.edu>, barryf@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Barry B. Floyd) writes:
>That statement is almost true except for the generally part.  In fact
>out of all the systems I've delt with (even including unix, some
>flavors of) they were real time systems.  Actually the big drawback
>is/would be a non-preemptive message based system.  I know in windows
>this is the case, probably with os2 also.

	Probably not - OS/2 is pre-emptive.

	Regards |(8>
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Robert