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- Subject: Re: What's wrong with DOS in real-time?
- Message-ID: <93007.150242CCVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- From: Christopher Vickery <CCVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
- Date: Thursday, 7 Jan 1993 15:02:42 EST
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- > 2) Does the DOS app have free access to hardware registers and interrupts ?
- > How much is this access slowed by the emulation ?
- The more critical issue, I would think, is how well the real-time
- side is protected from DOS programs that might disable interrupts for
- long (any) period of time. If the RT OS does not run DOS as a VM86 task,
- a DOS program (or DOS itself) can break the real-time side. I know that
- you think that having QNX run DOS in real mode is an advantage, but I
- don't understand it.
-
- > 6) How much does the presence of Windows impact the realtime performance of
- > the processes managed by the realtime OS ?
- As I said, this seems to be much more critical than 2).
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- Christopher Vickery, Computer Science Department, Queens College (CUNY)
- Flushing, NY 11367-0904 vickery@ipc1.cs.qc.edu (718)997-3500
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