--- On Fri, 4/26/13, Mark Wendt <wendt.m...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Michael,
> 
> I was thinking more of hardware resources, such as
> interrupts.  What
> happens when both instances require the same interrupt at
> the same time?
> Unlike shared memory, interrupts are a bit harder to share,
> or have
> concurrent use.  Can the separate instances somehow
> share the IO bus?  Or
> is there some kind of real time scheduler that looks ahead
> for all possible conflicts, and works it out?

There would have to be a scheduler or process manager or some way for processes 
to communicate with one another.

Just letting things roll along independently leads to disasters like the Therac 
25.

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