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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Amiga and Real Time Systems
- Date: 10 Apr 1996 16:36:54 +0200
- Organization: dis-
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- espie@bireme.ens.fr (Marc Espie) writes:
-
- >>The 7 MHz A1000 has been proven to have a maximum interrupt response
- >>time of 110 microseconds from an interrupt line on its Zorro I
- >>expansion cage.
-
- >I don't know which release of the OS you are using, but I know for
- >sure that programmers at Commodore were displeased with the slow
- >interrupt reaction time in the older OS, in short, that's one of the
- >things that got greatly improved in 2.0 :-)
-
- Yes and no. The interrupt reaction time has been improved a bit,
- mainly because sections that disabled interrupts have been cut down.
- But 110 microseconds isn't something really fast, it is just fast
- in comparison to the 250 microseconds of the SGI or the several
- ten milliseconds that many PCs need.
-
- >On the other hand, the Amiga native hardware for some real-time things
- >is not so great (for instance, the serial is a bitch to get right,
- >and pretty easy to throw out of sync if you're abusing higher level
- >interrupts).
-
- Isn't that obvious ? But by "abusing" the higher level interrupts you
- already defined that these sources are allowed to preempt the serial
- input routines.
-
- >If, as I think, React is just an add-on to the Unix kernel of standard
- >SGIs, I'm not too surprised at that slow reaction time.
-
- UNIX drivers don't necessarily have problems with the reaction time.
- UNIX processes on the other hand are slow. But this is a different
- topic.
-
- >Except for
- >MACH based Unixes, it's rather difficult to get a working real-time Unix.
-
- Mach isn't inherently faster.
- --
- Michael van Elst
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