Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Sep 1998 11:33:26 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Today Linus redesigns the networking driver interface (was Re: tulip driver in ...) |
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On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 03:05:11PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> I've been working on two things where hard real time is an > important matter. That is localtalk cards and dumb synchronous > cards. The former requires I hit 90uS or so worst case latency on > receive, the latter to do 2Mbits is even tighter.
IMO, if linux on a PII/300 can't do either of these reliably - we look pretty bad when a 68K/20 can do either or both of these with a different OS (MacOS/IOS).
Yes - I know its apples and oranges - but world domination isn't going to come easy.
-cw
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