Re: realtime application

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From: TAN JIN MENG
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 03:04

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fred@world.std.com (Fred A Putnam) writes:
: Our company, LABTECH, is the developer of a data acquisition software
: application package which runs on DOS and OS/2 (LABTECH NOTEBOOK).
: 
: If you think you can take a data acq app that is currently running on DOS
: with a 250 Hz interrupt rate, and get two of those to run in real time in
: two OS/2 "DOS boxes", you're mistaken.  The DOS boxes won't run in real
: time at all because they are being time-sliced with each other and with the
: rest of OS/2.  The timer ticks are virtualized, and do not track in real time.
: 
: Sorry, but I don't think this plan will fly..
: 
: --
: Fred Putnam, LABTECH, fred@labtech.com, 1-800-TRY-LABTECH

Sorry, the DOS box stuff isn't meant to be the "serious" stuff. But we
need a pro tem solution to show potential backers - we're a .edu
institution - kind of like a prototype.

jin meng

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