----- Original Message ----- From: "Bayard Coolidge USG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 9:21 AM Subject: Re: x86 Assembly resources
> > Derek Martin said his interest in x86 Assembly is academic. > > Well, OK, I can sort of understand that, particularly if you might > be thinking of tinkering in the embedded market, or doing some > esoteric real-time stuff. > [snip] I only wish to comment on the "real-time" stuff. Assembly language programming will buy you NOTHING if you are programming for real time operation in a UNIX-like environment. The essence of Linux and other UNIX-like OSes is that they are definitely NOT real time, and no amount of code optimization will ever get you there. For real-time programming under Linux, one should be looking at real-time extensions for Linux, namely RTAI (http://www.realtimelinux.org/) and RT-Linux (http://fsmlabs.com/products/.) Rich Cloutier President, C*O SYSTEM SUPPORT SERVICES www.sysupport.com ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
