Steven Work wrote: > Don (a co-worker) examined this question when a project he was working > on required hard realtime to control a laser deflector device used in > generating a laser trap .. cool stuff.. he found that NT could not > perform nearly as well as RTLinux. > > Take a look at this writeup for more details: > > http://www.uvm.edu/~dgaffney/bmes99/ > > Don and I were just talking about this earlier today and I learned that > you can get a kernel for NT which runs NT OS as a low priority. I ask .. > But why bother? Plus Victor has the patent, and he will make you pay royalties if you do the NT thing:) I'm still doing some soft real time in NT, and it always annoys me the stuff NT does when it should be running my program. Maybe i'll write up my nightmare trying to get nt to control a fatigue machine. I'm lucky i'm not dead. My only gripe with linux is that NT looks better -- [rtl] --- To unsubscribe: echo "unsubscribe rtl" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR echo "unsubscribe rtl <Your_email>" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- For more information on Real-Time Linux see: http://www.rtlinux.org/rtlinux/
