On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 07:39:05AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <2157.12.6.201.67.1260689371.squir...@popaccts.quik.com>, "J.
> Forste
> r" writes:
>
> >I'm not so sure about the Nova 1200. I think all the Novas had the RTC was
> >on a standard I/O board, [...]
>
> No, it was an option, but almost everybody bought it, because it was
> necessary to run any kind of timesharing kernel (RTOS, DOMUS, etc)
Technically one could order basic IO boards without some of the
functionality - they simply didn't stuff in some of the chips (and more
than one customer just added the requisite chips themselves). I do
remember that there were some functions on that card that were rarely
stuffed...
I seem to remember that RDOS (the NOVA disk operating system)
DID require the RTC and I certainly don't remember any hacks in the
system code to get around the need for timer interrupts to keep time and
handle delays and timed waits. It was a real time multitasking kernel,
though only one "process" (mostly) due to the lack of memory management
Long time ago though...
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