> Real-time is used in the industrial setting of manufacturing and in research > laboratories. The standard Linux OPS can do real-time at moderate rates if > timing is not critical. If Rbase had a real-time module, it would be called an > industrial data base.
Nothing that runs under Windows is, or ever will be, a real-time system as Windows is most certainly not designed to be a real-time operating system in any sense of the word. I don't think Linux is a realtime operating system either, but I'm not sure. Since the definition of a realtime operating system is one that guarantees the handling of any event within a specified (small) amount of time, I'm not sure what a realtime operating system in which timing is not critical would mean. If you want to receive information into R:Base from a serial connection, you would need to write a UDF. If you are going to return to R:Base to process every byte of information, I doubt it would be able to keep up. However, if your UDF were to collect chunks of information to return to R:Base, you probably could write a system to handle some reasonable load. -- Larry _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l
