>From a WINNT CMD prompt. start /REALTIME myapp.exe
This will force the thread into highest priority. It will also make it look like your system no longer works as the system processes take second to your thread. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On > Behalf Of Lawrence Lustig > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 7:23 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Realtime and RBase > > > 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 ================================================ 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
