Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!mintaka!ai-lab!captain-crunch!klaus From: klaus@captain-crunch.ai.mit.edu (Klaus B. Biggers) Newsgroups: comp.realtime Subject: Re: RSX -- one of the best? Message-ID: <16302@life.ai.mit.edu> Date: 4 Jun 91 21:22:59 GMT References: <22847@shlump.lkg.dec.com> <41618@genrad.UUCP> Sender: news@ai.mit.edu Distribution: comp.realtime Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Lines: 22 In article greg@organia.sce.carleton.ca (Greg Franks) writes: > >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? :-). >-- I think they call it ANSI C and prototyped functions... or there's lint which will do your type checking. C has some really nice advantages.. portability-- what't that? data abstraction-- what't that? what did you use on RSX11?? fortran? -klaus -klaus klaus@snowhite.ced.utah.edu _______________________________________________________________________________