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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
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(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)
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