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From: da188@cs.city.ac.uk (A. Khattri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Real-time Unix ?
Date: 7 Oct 1993 01:02:06 +0100
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In article <28f7bq$3cd@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Glen Schaff <glens@space.mit.edu> writes:
>I'm looking for a real-time UNIX Operating system that runs on SUN
>sparcs.   I have to acquire data through SUN at 4 Meg/Sec and write to
>disk for sustained periods.  I'm concerned that under the standard OS I
>can not completely disable the scheduler, and other backround tasks from
>stealing CPU time during this process.  Can I do this using 4.4BSD ?  If
>yes, how would I go about obtaining a copy.

I remember reading in BYTE magazine about something called Chrous which is
a real-time kernel?

Aj.
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