On 09/29/2010 05:36 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote:
>
>
However, we feel
> that it is inappropriate and unnecessary to declare that the operating
> system be POSIX-compliant, in the same way that we would not declare
> that controllers use the VME bus. [good thing, anyone here still using
> any VME
Kent A. Reed wrote:
> Had a
> similar product for Windows NT been available to the project, Windows NT
> would have been included in the mix.
I believe they DID try out one of the commercial RT extensions for NT,
and found it to be
awful. They had one second latencies several times a day.
Jon
Gentle persons:
Since there is interest in gathering information for a new Wikipedia
article on EMC and since there has been some gratuitous O/S bashing
going on recently, I thought I would kill two birds with one stone by
recommending y'all read (or reread) the NIST report "Enhanced Machine