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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcrware!mwca!bill
- From: bill@mwca.UUCP (Bill Sheppard)
- Newsgroups: comp.realtime
- Subject: Re: What's wrong with DOS in real-time?
- Message-ID: <2012@mwca.UUCP>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 17:24:37 GMT
- References: <1992Dec24.105151.559@doc.bmd.trw.com> <92365.123047CCVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Santa Clara, Ca.
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- In <92365.123047CCVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> CCVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET (Christopher Vickery) writes:
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- >There are real time kernels and real time operating systems available for the
- >8086, but if if you want to do real-time on a DOS machine, you have to use
- >iRMX for Windows. That's a full-blown real-time OS that runs only on an 80386
- >or above, undoubtedly too big for a small embedded app.
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- There are Real-Time Operating Systems available for 'DOS' machines
- (80386/80486 PC's) which are scalable, and thus suitable for many embedded
- applications. OS-9000 (a product I sell) would be one example of such an OS.
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- Bill Sheppard
- Microware Systems
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