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From: rroot@edm.UUCP (Stephen Samuel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: IRQ virus (and a personal note to Steve)
Message-ID: <5142@edm.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 89 03:32:14 GMT
References: <3222@sugar.uu.net>
Organization: Unexsys Systems Inc., Edmonton,AB.
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From article <3222@sugar.uu.net>, by peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva):
> 
> much better suited to the job. UNIX, for example. There are no other real-time
> systems that let ordinary people, not control systems professionals, work
> with and write non-trivial programs with a $1500 investment. I think the
> -- 
> Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva  `-_-'  Hackercorp.

Unh, Have you considered OS-9?  Granted, a 2MZ COCO isn't as fast as an amiga,
but it IS a LOT cheaper.  OS-9 is designed for real-time work and can even
be ROMmed, once you get your stuff working right.  It's also pretty nice to
work with in most cases (looking quite a bit like UNIX[tm]).
 I know the U of A physics got a stack of them to do (student) experiment
controls, though I'm not sure that they all run under OS-9.
   [I STILL think that C-A would have been beter off with OS-9, but, c'est
la vie.
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Stephen Samuel 	  (userzxcv@ualtamts.bitnet   or  alberta!edm!steve)
(Only in Canada, you say??.... Pity!)