🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi all.

I'm completely new to OS/2, coming from a Mac background (no anti-Mac
flames, please).  I've read the FAQs, but this one doesn't get
answered, so any help would be very much appreciated.

We're looking at a real-time application involving several oddball
gizmos communicating with the serial ports at 9600.  These have
to be multitasked with some decidedly non-trivial programming
involved, and have to be responded to in some cases inside 25ms or
all kinds of disasters will occur.

Is it even feasible to try this using OS/2's multitasking on a
25mHz 386?  Or should we go for a a single "application" doing
its own internal multitasking between modules handling the
different gizmos?

FYI, there's no way we could have done this on most Mac models,
which don't have DMA disk access, since we will sometimes be
updating stuff on disk while everything else has to keep going.

I know I'm probably a complete idiot to be even thinking about
this with no OS/2 experience, but I only have to worry about
the multitasking organization, and with the Aussie economy the
way it is I have to take work wherever I can get it!!!

Reply by email, please.

Cheers,  Mike.

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