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Date:      Wed, 29 Mar 1995 10:11:02 -0700 (MST)
From:      Brad Midgley <brad@pht.com>
To:        Fernando Astorga <fernando@cea.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD support for realtime systems
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.91.950329100741.2941A-100000@exodus.pht.com>
In-Reply-To: <199503291239.EAA04745@halfmoon.cea.berkeley.edu>

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On Wed, 29 Mar 1995, Fernando Astorga wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone out there has had previous experience with running
> real-time systems on a UNIX environment.  But first, here's a description:

> I'm pushing for porting this scheduler to UNIX, preferably FreeBSD, since it
> will run on the lab's PCs.  But there are some issues that I'm not too 
> familiar with, esp. UNIX's time-slice/process priority system.  Can someone
> who has had experience with real-time systems on UNIX provide some info 
> on how it can be done?

I don't know how FreeBSD performs WRT realtime, but we used QNX (it's for
intel) a lot at my last job.  QNX's main thing is realtime support and the
api looks like POSIX for the most part so if your applications are written
carefully, they could run on BSD or QNX.  It's even starting to get very 
stable with late releases (early versions were a little flakey).

brad@pht.com




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