Not only SSH access, loggin g things like DNS lookup and rading the ntp.comf file from local (flash?) memory. And then without an OS you'd have to implement sceduling and process creation yourself. How else to accept SSH log ins, talk to multiple NT clients and yu reference clocks and write to the log server all at the same time?
The trouble is that if you decide to go with an OS all of this becomes easy because it is already available for ARM and any other platforms the OS runs on. On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:44 PM, David J Taylor <david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > From: Tom Harris > > > +1 for Forth! > > +1 for your opinions on PICs & AVRs. We can buy low end NXP ARM Cortex M0 > chips (e.g. LPC1113) for less than the PIC18 we were using before, and it > has a real compiler and (unlike the real world) evidence of intelligent > design! > > Do you really need an OS? Surely for a box that is only ever going to be an > NTP server you just need a network interface and good maths? I've just seen > a later comment where you mention floating point support, but would 64 bit > integer maths work just as well? > ========================================== > > > Having an OS makes access to things like SNMP for monitoring, SSL for > control, and Samba for log extraction and management easier. > > > Cheers, > David > -- > SatSignal Software - Quality software written to your requirements > Web: http://www.satsignal.eu > Email: david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.