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- From: Gord Wait <gord@vdc.smos.com>
- Subject: Re: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Wicked ...
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- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 23:43:15 GMT
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- Mark A. Scarton wrote:
- >
- > I must concur. I built a passive sensor system (radar) using OS/2 for
- > management, flow control, and display preparation and an adapter with i860 chips
- > for the object tracker. I used (feed forward) queues of preallocated memory
- > blocks to hold incoming signals within frames, where the queue management was
- > preallocated slots for pointers into the block buffers. The queue memory was
- > then shared among the processors...successfully even. ;-) This resulted in a
- > determinstic, highly optimized memory manager. Plus real-time tracking of
- > aircraft and short range ballistic missiles on a 486/50 class PC. The previous
- > edition using malloc had failed.
- >
- > Mark A. Scarton, ABD
- > CompUtah!, Park City, Utah USA
- > Home: 801.565.9835
- > Office: 801.265-4612
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- Yikes! I'd hate to be the pilot of one of those planes the Police use
- to catch speeders in your town! :)
-
- Is the above system available for laptops?
-
- (sorry, I just couldn't resist!)
-
- --
- Gord Wait S-MOS Systems Vancouver Design Centre
- (B.C. Canada eh!)
- gord@vdc.smos.com
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