Newsgroups: comp.realtime Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews2!cunews!alfred!greg From: greg@organia.sce.carleton.ca (Greg Franks) Subject: Re: RSX -- one of the best? In-Reply-To: mas@genrad.com's message of 23 May 91 15:39:18 GMT Message-ID: Sender: news@ccs.carleton.ca (news) Organization: /home/organia/greg/.organization References: <22847@shlump.lkg.dec.com> <41618@genrad.UUCP> Distribution: comp.realtime Date: 24 May 91 10:00:15 In article <41618@genrad.UUCP> mas@genrad.com (Mark A. Swanson) writes: However, the killers for our use was the fact that RSX had no support for TCP/IP (and for quite a while little for Ethernet), and poor C compilers which made it difficult to work with in the context of larger systems. The *lack* of a C compiler is often considered an advantage in the context of larger real-time systems (i.e., those with lots of people working on the same 8-megabyte program). Type checking -- what't that? :-). -- Greg Franks, (613) 788-5726 | "The reason that God was able to Systems Engineering, Carleton University, | create the world in seven days is Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6. | that he didn't have to worry about greg@sce.carleton.ca ...!cunews!sce!greg | the installed base" -- Enzo Torresi