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From: wvp@aplpy.jhuapl.edu (Wilfredo V. Perez)
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: Re: How good _is_ LynxOS?
Keywords: NASA Unix RT Panic Coredump _Crash_
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Date: 2 Feb 90 20:34:02 GMT
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nkings@axion.bt.co.uk (Nicholas J. Kings) writes:

>Does anyone know why LynxOS was chosen by NASA?

Actually, it was selected by IBM that is the contractor for NASA.
I don't know why, but undestand that Lynx rewrote UNIX from ground zero
in order to make it real-time OS (instead of modifying it).

	Wil