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- From: eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (TAN JIN MENG)
- Subject: Re: realtime application
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.030402.13525@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Organization: National University of Singapore
- References: <Btyt27.JqD@world.std.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 03:04:02 GMT
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- fred@world.std.com (Fred A Putnam) writes:
- : Our company, LABTECH, is the developer of a data acquisition software
- : application package which runs on DOS and OS/2 (LABTECH NOTEBOOK).
- :
- : If you think you can take a data acq app that is currently running on DOS
- : with a 250 Hz interrupt rate, and get two of those to run in real time in
- : two OS/2 "DOS boxes", you're mistaken. The DOS boxes won't run in real
- : time at all because they are being time-sliced with each other and with the
- : rest of OS/2. The timer ticks are virtualized, and do not track in real time.
- :
- : Sorry, but I don't think this plan will fly..
- :
- : --
- : Fred Putnam, LABTECH, fred@labtech.com, 1-800-TRY-LABTECH
-
- Sorry, the DOS box stuff isn't meant to be the "serious" stuff. But we
- need a pro tem solution to show potential backers - we're a .edu
- institution - kind of like a prototype.
-
- jin meng
-