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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:16:23 +0100
From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de>
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Subject: Re: emc2 on freebsd
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On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:20:05 -0500
yawstick <yawstick@charter.net> wrote:

> curious if anyone could comment of the practicality of porting emc2 to 
> freebsd
> emc2 is a cnc machine control package     http://www.linuxcnc.org/ 
> the preferred operating system for this package is ubuntu with a real 
> time kernel
> not sure what a real time kernel is but curious if there is something 
> similar on freebsd
> 

Real time means guaranteed response times for handling e.g. interrupts.
FreeBSD is not real time, although with a very fast CPU it may be
adequate.

Linux is also not real time out-of-the-box.  Patches (RTAI for one) are
needed to get real time behavior.

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Gary Jennejohn