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From: miklg@sono.uucp (Michael Goldman )
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: Re: VENIX as a REAL-TIME Kernel
Keywords: kernels,venix
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.162023.3902@sono.uucp>
Date: 20 Jun 91 16:20:23 GMT
References: <1991Jun19.212908.12833@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
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mcnitt@buster.cps.msu.edu (Kevin L McNitt) writes:


>	I been following the discussion on realtime kernels and most
> of them have been 68k based kernels.

>	What kind of realtime kernels exists form 486 systems

>   I heard about VENIX , interactives totally preemptive kernels

>  any one every use this ? any comments would be welcomed.

For the 486 there's also:

	VRTX - Ready Systems, Sunnyvale, CA - 408-736-2600
	
	pSOS - Software Components Group, San Jose, CA - 408-736-2600
	
	FlexOS - DRI, Monterey, CA - 408-646-6001 - Unix-y
	
	MTOS - Industrial Programming, Jericho, NY - 800-365-6867
	
	LynxOS - Lynx R-T Systems, Campbell, CA - 408-354-7770 - Unix clone
	
	VxWorks - Wind River Systems - Alameda, CA - 415-???

See also a survey in the Feb. '90 issue of "Embedded Systems Programming".

Regards,
   Michael Goldman