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From: ksbszabo@wateng.UUCP (Kevin Szabo)
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Subject: Rob Pike's talk: Why UNIX can't do real time graphics/interaction
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Date: Tue, 5-Feb-85 20:13:59 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  5 20:13:59 1985
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A while ago an article that previewed a graphics conference mentioned
a talk by Rob Pike (the provocative one). The title was something
like `Why UNIX Can Not Do Real Time Graphics'. Did anybody hear
the talk? Or better yet can someone give a short summary of the paper?

I would imagine that Unix's scheduling philosophy and its habit
of locking out interrupts have a great deal to do with his argument,
but I would like to hear the rest.

					Kevin
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Kevin Szabo  watmath!wateng!ksbszabo (U of Waterloo VLSI Group, Waterloo Ont.)