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From: acli@byron.net4.io.org (Ambrose Li)
Subject: Re: Linux or BSD?
Message-ID: <DpBHGr.oCz@byron.net4.io.org>
Organization: some non-organization in Scarborough, Canada (running C News CR.E, NNTP 1.5.12)
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 02:55:39 GMT
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On 2 Apr 1996 02:58:49 GMT, in article <4jq559$jk3@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu>, BENJAMIN A LINDSTROM <bl03@uwrf.edu> wrote:
>: - decent kernel switch time
>Define...Switching as in internal? Or switching as in moving between
>1.2.x to 2.0.x?
I think "switch time" means the time to do a "context switch" in
multitasking, i.e. how fast the kernel does its job when it switches
between processes.
>: did anyone use Linux or Netbsd in a realtime applications? (process control/monitoring)?
>I can't say much about *bsd*...but Linux is not up to Realtime apps just
>yet. I would supect that it would be posiable under 2.2.x kernel [...]
I don't think *any* Unix is up to realtime applications. Any real
experiences?
--
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one's own questions. In the process of finding the
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