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- From: miket@frog.CRDS.COM (Michael C Tiernan)
- Newsgroups: comp.realtime
- Subject: Re: novel idea?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.195020.25839@frog.CRDS.COM>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 19:50:20 GMT
- References: <erempel.726720401@sol.UVic.CA>
- Organization: Charles River Data Systems
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- erempel@sol.UVic.CA (Evan Rempel) writes:
- >I haven't read very much in the realtime environment, but I have
- >a thought about an OS that has what I think is a fairly unique
- >idea.
-
- I promise to not berate you for the statements but hopfully help
- educate you a bit. Everyone's points in response to this are
- right on the money and warrent some good reading. Additionally,
- the issue of the machine languages makes all of this a moot
- point but also the difference in the hardware scheme, the
- structures of the systems would have to be tailored to make them
- all look alike which would cause a good bit of overhead in the
- hardware not just for time but power too.
-
- >I am looking for an OS (real time obviously) that has the
- >ability to swap a task from one cpu to another. This is merely
- >a multiprocessing system. The catch is that I want to be
- >able to mix cpu's.
-
- You could do work like this (note the word "like") by using a
- tight network and using RCP's to use each machine for it's
- strenghts.
-
- >If there is can you give me some pointers to other info on it.
-
- You *MIGHT* want to consider the use of a psudo code at this
- point, THEN, you could switch systems for a process. However,
- you'd then need an interpreter running on each machine which is
- identical from the appliction's point of view. And a zillion
- other complexites build up from there.
-
- Good luck.
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