'My favorite platform' debate (was: Rack Mount Servers)

pll at lanminds.com pll at lanminds.com
Tue Aug 13 11:36:19 EDT 2002


In a message dated: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 06:18:26 EDT
Bill Mullen said:

>On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Rich Cloutier wrote:
>
>> The fact of the matter is, all those programs are Windows based (or at
>> least WERE until Linux.) And one kid I know actually complains that his
>> P4 system can't play an audio CD, watch TV (ATI All-in-wonder) surf the
>> web, and chat with his friends all at the same time. So he wants a
>> faster computer. Not because he can't play games; his system is
>> perfectly capable of that, but because when he does all that, his audio
>> CD skips. And it's because the OS is not real time. How does the problem
>> get solved? Throw more hardware at it. A true real time OS COULD indeed
>> play that audio CD without skipping and do the other stuff too.

Ahm, yeah, an RTOS *could* do all that, but it's not necessary.  I 
suspect that the real problem is either lack of memory, lack of swap, 
or conflicting configurations of various components.

I've seen a lot more done with a lot less computer and it was running 
Windows NT 4.0, which is *far* from an RTOS.
-- 

Seeya,
Paul
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