Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ukma!sean From: sean@ukma.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Virtual Memory vs. Real Time (was: Re: Wishlist for A3000) Message-ID: <7733@g.ms.uky.edu> Date: Fri, 20-Nov-87 00:33:25 EST Article-I.D.: g.7733 Posted: Fri Nov 20 00:33:25 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 21-Nov-87 18:41:13 EST References: <74@mithras> <1053@sugar.UUCP> <1382@squeaker.munsell.UUCP> <7730@g.ms.uky.edu> <1390@atkins.munsell.UUCP> Reply-To: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY Lines: 24 Keywords: VM != RT In article <1390@atkins.munsell.UUCP> klm@munsell.UUCP (Kevin [Being Weird Isn't Enough] McBride) writes: >All I can say is that Masscomp must have made some really good improvements >to their Real Time Unix. I haven't touched a Masscomp machine in over 3 >years... > >In other words, yes, Masscomp, VAX/VMS, will do realtime stuff, >but you have to dork with it so much that you end up wondering why you >ever bothered. Why not start off with a 'real' realtime system and don't >expect it to do very much more than that. RTU has changed a == WHOLE LOT == in 3 years. Version 4.0 meets the SysV interface definition and still has the fastest real time response of any other real time Unix by a factor of three. PLEASE DO NOT tell the world your "facts" about something you haven't touched in three years. Three years is an awfully long time in the computing hardware world. Sean -- -- Sean Casey sean@ms.uky.edu, {rutgers,uunet,cbosgd}!ukma!sean -- (the Empire guy) sean@ms.uky.csnet, sean@UKMA.BITNET -- University of Kentucky in Lexington Kentucky, USA -- "Inconceivable!"