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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Realtime and ADA - stupid newby question
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:45:33 -0500
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"Marc Pelletier" <marc@goldak.stopspam.ca> wrote in message
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> James Rogers <jimmaureenrogers@att.net> wrote in
> news:Xns941E98AEE4B8Cjimmaureenrogers@204.127.36.1:
>
> > PharLap
> > bundled with Aonix Object Ada
>
> Is Pharlap an rtos? My quick reading of their website seemed to indicate
> that it was a dos extender that made dos "more" realtime. Admittedly that
> may be real enough for my task.

It originally was a DOS Extender, but later on there were bare-machine
versions (that is, an RTOS). I have no idea what the current state is,
though.

                  Randy.