Thank you very much for your replies from you all over the list.
If you have any other source of information you would know about and that
I could use to show the preferability of RTL Vs. Windows NT, please tell
me, it would be of great use to me.
Thank you very much,
Best regards,
Stephane.
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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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