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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: real time
Message-ID: <4672@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Nov-84 17:51:29 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 23 17:51:29 1984
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> The last time I looked, the $15,000 LPS was 11-based.  That means that DEC is
> selling it with either RT or RSX, both of which are excellent low-overhead
> real-time operating systems.  ...

Neither one, of course, is much good as a timesharing system.  So comparing
them with Unix is silly.  Using one of them reduces to the standard solution
for doing heavy real-time work on any time-sharing system:  buy a satellite
processor to do the hard stuff.  Who cares what's running in the satellite?
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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