Re: [Emc-users] history of emc

2010-09-30 Thread Mark Wendt
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

Re: [Emc-users] history of emc

2010-09-29 Thread Jon Elson
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

[Emc-users] history of emc

2010-09-29 Thread Kent A. Reed
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