<quote> What this world needs is a really good operating system. And, no, Linux and MacOS aren't it. And it isn't possible to find any sort of equivalence between "Windows" and "Good Operating System." </quote>
There can be no single "good operating system" just like there can be no single "good car." The world HAS several good operating systems. Windows is obviously one of them, as proven by the fact that it is successfully used in by tens of millions of people every day. That clearly qualifies as a definition of "good." You want real-time, get QNX. You want to be able to tailor Windows specifically to the task of running a pseudo-realtime system without any overhead? That would be Windows Embedded Standard. You want to take a general purpose, demand paged, virtual memory, operating system with a ton of random stuff on it and run a long-running, pseudo-realtime, deterministic task? That would be a recipe for "it works for some people sometimes, and not for other people at other times." And hence this is where we find ourselves. But, I *know* you know that Brian... P _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
