On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 01:07:13AM -0800, Stephen Hindle thus spake: > > > Ok...This time I _did_ search the list archives :-) > > Has anyone tried QNX on their wearable? or RTLinux? > or any of the other 'realtime'/'embedded' OS's around? > (pSoS anyone ? :-) ) I'd think they'd be a natural > for a wearable... Cost is a problem...most commercial RTOS are too expensive. Being closed-source is also a major problem. I've used RT-Linux for work before...it's excellent. > > Its small, fast, doesn't have the IDE 'hiccups' > non-rt kernels like Linux have (ie MP3's don't skip > - no matter how many yer playing - I stopped > counting at 10) This is due to non-DMA disk access on IDE systems which causes the CPU to become I/O-bound at high transfer rates. Eric LaForest -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain
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