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SubjectRe: [PATCH] scheduler patch, faster still
On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 01:05:40PM +0200, Olaf Titz wrote:
> [I'm not taking any sides in this flamewar. Just an unrelated comment.]
>
> > almost completely irrelevant to a plain old user. I cannot think of one
> > application that would be found in the typical office at present that
> > actually would need real-time scheduling.
>
> A box that acts as an answering machine via voice modem is an example
> of a (hard!) realtime application in an office environment. It would
> be a glorious waste to designate a CPU for that; at least the box has
> also to do print server tasks which are obviously non-realtime. (Hard
> realtime because even one missed character on the serial line can
> cause complete desynchronization, depending on the compression used,
> this means end of recording.)


Well, it wouldn't be waste if you are implementing a voice mail system for
say 400 users. If the RT stuff was stable and reliable you could challenge
Qunix in that market.


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