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- From: retrac@vesuvius.rice.edu (John Carter)
- Subject: SUMMARY: OS Support for Real Time Computing
- Message-ID: <C0EJ28.4no@rice.edu>
- Originator: retrac@vesuvius.cs.rice.edu
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- Organization: Rice University, Houston
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:13:19 GMT
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- Last week I sent out a request for suggestions for a reading list for a
- seminar that I was planning to run this quarter on ``Operating Systems
- Support for Real Time Computing''. I didn't get as many responses or
- suggestions for papers as I'd hoped, but I'd like to thank those of you who
- took the time to respond. Maybe this summary will encourage those of you
- out there who *do* have a reading list to post it. Without further ado,
- here are the messages and suggestions that I received.
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- From: shu@cs.purdue.edu (Lih-Chyun S Shu)
-
- My area is in concurrency control and scheduling for hard real-time systems.
- The annual IEEE Real-Time system symposium is considered the best conference
- in this field. Journal of Real-Time Systems is the journal dedicated to
- publishing state-of-the-art results on RTS.
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- From: dennisk@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu (Dennis M. Kavanagh)
-
- An excellent recent book is Real-Time System Design and Theory
- I suspect you will be deluged with references soon...
-
- [retrac: Heh heh. Not quite. :-)]
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- From: Christopher Vickery <CCVQC%CUNYVM.BITNET@cc.utah.edu>
-
- I have a book titled "Real-Time and Systems Programming Featuring the iRMX
- for Windows Operating System" (McGraw-Hill) coming out in March or April.
- It's not good on the survey of real-time issues you're looking for. It
- covers interrupt response time, context switch time, and has an introduction
- to the scheduling problem. Most of it deals with the nitty-gritty of using
- iRMX. I teach a couple of laboratory courses on systems programming based
- on iRMX. The thesis is that a real-time OS provides the application
- developer with the tools to do what is normally considered to be systems
- programming: concurrency, memory, and interrupt management.
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- From: rgallen@muug.mb.ca (Rennie Allen)
-
- One paper you might want to read is "An Architectural Overview of QNX"
- available at /pub/qnx-paper.ps.Z ftp.csu.ucsc.edu. While this is written
- by a Quantum employee (danh@qnx.com), it does present a good overview of
- a microkernal RTOS.
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- Again, I'd like to thank the four of you for your responses.
-
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- John Carter -*- University of Utah - Center for Software Science
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