Re: GNAT R/T Annex and Win95

[Greg Bond <bond@ee.ubc.ca>]

Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93 wrote:
> 
>     Here's an interesting question which we've been thinking about
>     around here a lot:
> 
>     Do you consider Windows NT capable of being a "realtime" operating
>     system? (It doesn't seem to be advertised as such.... yet.)
> Stuff deleted...

The suitability of NT for real-time has been discussed on and off on 
comp.realtime. Here's one posting that may be of peripheral interest.


     Subject: 
            Re: Realtime NT 
       Date: 
            Sat, 13 Apr 1996 03:22:47 GMT 
      From: 
            dszlucha@eznet.net (David Szlucha)
Newsgroups: 
            comp.realtime
  References: 
            1


dszlucha@eznet.net (David Szlucha) wrote:

By the way, Jim's reply address is: jfox@ultranet.com and VenturCom's
WWW address is: www.vci.com.



>Hi,

>I recently attended an Embedded show in Boston and found out that
>microsoft is working with a company called VenturCom (Cambridge, MA)
>to
>develop hard realtime extension for NT.  They also have some products
>for
>building 'embedded versions of NT' - they let you pick and choose what
>goes
>into the NT build and according to their web page you can fit NT on a
>system
>with no monitor, 8 MB ram and 16 MB disk.

>I'm having trouble posting so if this works and anybody is interested
>I'll write more about what I found out - also, they have a web site.

>Jim Fox

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