Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!xanth!mcnc!ecsvax.uncecs.edu!cjl From: cjl@uncecs.edu (Charles J. Lord) Newsgroups: comp.realtime Subject: Comments requested: TimeSlicer by Lifeboat Keywords: RT Kernal Message-ID: <1989Oct2.190950.17814@uncecs.edu> Date: 2 Oct 89 19:09:50 GMT Organization: Triangle R&D Corp,RTP,NC Lines: 21 (sorry if this came up in August - I missed a whole month here) I am currently planning an 80386-based autonomous robotic controller system that will utilize vision input and Puma control output. I am looking at real-time scheduling kernals and OS' that will allow the proper integration of the vision acquisition, processing, and robot control tasks. Has anyone used TimeSlicer with MSC as such a controller? I am partial to keeping the tasks in MSC 5.1, and don't really wish to port everything to a realtime UN*X. Of course, there is always VRTX - how do the two methods compare? Any help or advice for an old programmer who is new to big-time realtime programming would be appreciated. (I am used to writing my *own* schedulers for microcontrollers. In fact, I finished my 68HC11 version just a month before Moto's appeared on their BBS... ARGGGH) -- * Charles Lord ..!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!cjl Usenet (old) * * Cary, NC cjl@ecsvax.UUCP Usenet (new) * * #includecjl@ecsvax.BITNET Bitnet * * #include cjl@ecsvax.uncecs.edu Internet *