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From: ack@clark.net (Eric S. Hvozda)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and realtime?
Date: 3 Jun 1994 08:28:38 -0400
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In article <1994Jun2.212641.2014@alw.nih.gov>,
Art Hays <art@lsr.nei.nih.gov> wrote:
>Has any work been done to add realtime capabilities to FreeBSD? 
>The biggie would be attaching interrupts to user processes, 
>and guaranteeing a low latency.

I'm not on the mailing lists now, but far as I know there is no realtime
scheduler available for any of the *BSD's at this time.  Jordan could
probably clue you into as whether one is under construction tho...
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