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From: "Sploo" <sploo@lineone.net>
Subject: Re: A (hopefully) interesting question...
Date: 2000/10/06
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> Your real-time OS (You will be using a real-time OS right? They aren't
> *that* stupid are they?)  should have lots of intertask/process
> communications primitives of various levels of abstraction. You'll just
> have to acquaint yourself with what process/tasking kenel your OS is
> using, how it schedules, and what communications and synchronization
> primitives are available.

Yup. Some of the stuff I've been looking at supports features such as
Queues, Pipes, Semaphores, Signals and Events. Just seems a lot simpler in
Ada...

> Good luck. I give you about 2 weeks before you start seriously annyoing
> everyone by repeating "in Ada this would have been *so* much easier"
> every 10 minutes. :-)

Most probably. But then I'd get beaten with the Kernighan & Ritchie ANSI C
book :)