Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Jul 2000 21:11:32 -0600 | From | yodaiken@fsmlabs ... | Subject | Re: An important fact about real time computing |
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On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 10:36:00AM -0600, Jesse C Cronce wrote: > task (as per your example) that's one thing, but I thought that RT > scheduling > is about deadlines and whether or not they can be met, which has nothing > to > do with fast computing.
That's true, but it's also true that the shorter the latencies the greater the range of applications. So, HP-UX "RT" offers determinism up to some millisecond point and RTLinux offers determinism at the 15 microsecond level -- one can be used for robotics and one cannot.
victor
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