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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: real-time Unix Systems
Message-ID: <8100@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Aug-87 15:22:54 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 22 15:22:54 1987
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>In article <8050@mimsy.UUCP> I claimed:
>>... like most operating systems, if you work at it, you can get Unix
>>out of the way, too.

In article <318@oxtrap.UUCP> rich@oxtrap.UUCP (K. Richard Magill) writes:
>On our Sequent Balance 8000 (with 6 nsc32032's (@10Mhz)), I can lock a
>process on a processor and tell the scheduler to leave me alone.  What
>can be more real-time?

What do you think `lock[ing] a process on a processor and tell[ing]
the scheduler to leave [it] alone' is doing?  This took quite a
bit of work.  Fortunately, Sequent has already done most of it.

Masscomp also provides Unix systems with most of the work done
already, and I am sure there are other vendors who have managed to
`get Unix out of the way' too.
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