From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 7 3: 9:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.mishkei.org.il (mail.mishkei.org.il [62.0.64.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30D4237BABF for ; Sun, 7 May 2000 03:09:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rom_glsa@ein-hashofet.co.il) Received: from einhashofet (host9.einhashofet.knet.co.il [212.116.170.9]) by mail.mishkei.org.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA27078 for ; Sun, 7 May 2000 13:09:35 +0300 (IDT) Message-ID: <000601bfb814$9cf19d00$0264a8c0@einhashofet> From: "Gilad Rom" To: Subject: FreeBSD as a Real-Time solution? Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 13:08:44 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1255" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I have been using FreeBSD as a Server OS for a long time with great success and satisfaction, and now the need has come for a new solution to our production network, which has several 486/386 machines, that need a real time OS to monitor production status. Question is, could FreeBSD be made suitable for such tasks? Performance isnt an issue, but I need to make precise time readings from the parallel port and timing is critical. Right now I am using DOS, which is pretty much fine for that, but I want something better. Thank you, -- Gilad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message