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Date:	Sun, 30 Apr 2000 13:02:22 PST
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: OS/2 as real-time OS ?

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Gregory W. Smith wrote:
>
> Linux has been hacked to serve as a real-time
> operating. There is a lot of activity from a group
> at New Mexicao State University with real-time
> Linux. In effect, they have written a real-time
> interrupt layer that takes a higher priority than
> the regular Linux kernel. You have to set aside
> additional memory blocks to act as buffers
> between the real-time layer and the rest of Linux.

I'd be _very_ interested in discussing this ...

> I understand that QNX is based
> on a real-time microkernel.

Yes. But _what_ makes the QNX kernel different from the OS/2 kernel?
_Why_ is the QNX kernel better than OS/2 for real-time applications?

- Peter

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