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From: killops@mentor.com (Scott Killops)
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: Re: books about real time programming
Message-ID: <1989Dec15.180424.9253@mentor.com>
Date: 15 Dec 89 18:04:24 GMT
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In article <1853@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> heidi@kiwi.bcm.tmc.edu (Heidi Johnson) writes:
>
>Can anyone recommend some good books for a person who is not even 
>sure what 'real time' programming entails?
>
Well, speaking of MTOS, David Ripps from IPI has recently come out
with "An Implementation Guide to Real-time Programming", published
by Prentice Hall.  Haven't seen it, though.  (Anybody have any review
comments?)

I like Savitsky's book for a good general introduction to microprocessor
based real-time systems, but I don't have a copy and don't recall the
title off-hand.  It was reviewed by Plauger in "Embedded Systems Programming"
about six months back.  A couple similar books which I do have are:

	Real-Time Microcomputer System Design: An Introduction
	Peter D. Lawrence, Konrad Mauch
	1987, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-036731-0

	Real-Time Computer Control: An Introduction
	Stuart Bennett
	1988, Prentice Hall International, ISBN 0-13-762485-9

The first is a little more hardware oriented, but reflects the bus and boards
approach to putting together real-time systems pretty well.  The second is a
little more balanced between hardware and software, but tends to focus on control
applications.  A book focused entirely on real-time software is:

	Introduction to Real-time Software Design, Second Edition
	S.T. Allworth and R.N. Zobel
	1987, Spring-Verlag, ISBN 0-387-91307-6

All of these books include lots of other references.  Also, IEEE has a tutorial
on hard real-time systems which contains lots of more technical papers on
scheduling, etc.

Chow,
Scott