Re: Pure Linux instead of RTAI

Herman Bruyninckx <[email protected]> Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:46:47 +0100 (CET)

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On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Patrycjusz Szczepaniak wrote:

[...]
> Is there any sense in using RTAI if Linux works?
>
You find some more detailed and very informative discussions on this link:
  <http://lwn.net/Articles/143323/>.

The bottomline is: an RTOS is only needed if, sooner or later, your
application will have to make a predictable and deterministic decision
between running thread A or thread B. And often, this occurs only "once in
a million" times...

Herman

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