Take a look at http://www.zentropix.com/ there you can both find a lot stuf about
Linux vs. NT. And you can BUY RTLinux including some RTLinux tools (Debugger).
Mads Andresen, Denmark
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Fra: Stephane Pierre Bordas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: realtime linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Stephane BORDAS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dato: 8. marts 1999 00:54
Emne: Re: [rtl] RTL ROBOTS
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>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:
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>> 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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