Re: Mil question.

[dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)]

"Alex P." <alexp@ica.net> wrote in message news:<Ptff8.218$Jw6.1610@news.bc.tac.net>...
> Sorry for offtopic. Looking at those links you've provided
> NATO Artillery Ballistic Kernel
> - software targeted to Windows NT.
> I believe NT is one of the most reliable OS on market now,
> just wondering which version or build of NT used in those
> projects ? I've heard MSoft has version of NT for embedded
> systems.

NT is one of the *only* OS's for PC's on the market now. Its very
reliable compared to unsafe OS's like DOS and Win9x, but I don't find
it any more reliable than any other modern OS. Perhaps a little less
so, but that's probably mostly due to all the different device drivers
it can run.

However, it is not suitable for real-time systems, which would
certianly rule it out for most things relating to artillery
ballistics. Perhaps you could use it to do some initial calculations.

Microsoft does sell an embedded NT, but it is not real-time. There are
some real-time OS's that work with NT (by taking control of the
machine each clock cycle, and giving it back to NT only when there are
no more RT tasks to run), but Microsoft itself doesn't make such a
thing. If you don't need to run a snazzy GUI or something like Office,
you might as well use a dedicated RTOS.

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