On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 12:10:36PM -0600, Stephane Pierre Bordas wrote:
> I am confronted to persons that think that RTL is not reliable because it
> is a freeware and thus would prefer to use Windows for applications
> needing calculations of robot arm trajectories requiring a data treatment
> as fast as one millisecond (at least 10 milliseconds).
Please tell these persons that we would be happy to sell them a copy of RTLinux
for $10,000 if it made them feel happier. Since they are at a university,
I will offer a special academic discount!
> I don't think this would be a good idea to use Windows with such small
> durations, but I am facing the reluctancy of my partners and would like to
> know your advice on that.
My advice is to make your partners do some research on the "realtime" response
of Windows. There is a paper in the Proceeding of OSDI'99 by some researchers
at Intel on Windows&NT interrupt latency. The researchers are very favorable
to windows, but the results are clear.
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