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From: greg@organia.sce.carleton.ca (Greg Franks)
Subject: Re: RSX -- one of the best?
In-Reply-To: mas@genrad.com's message of 23 May 91 15:39:18 GMT
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Date: 24 May 91 10:00:15

In article <41618@genrad.UUCP> mas@genrad.com (Mark A. Swanson) writes:

   However, the killers for our use was the fact that RSX had no support for
   TCP/IP (and for quite a while little for Ethernet), and poor C compilers
   which made it difficult to work with in the context of larger systems.  

The *lack* of a C compiler is often considered an advantage in the
context of larger real-time systems (i.e., those with lots of people
working on the same 8-megabyte program).  Type checking -- what't
that?  :-).
--
Greg Franks, (613) 788-5726               | "The reason that God was able to    
Systems Engineering, Carleton University, | create the world in seven days is   
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada  K1S 5B6.         | that he didn't have to worry about 
greg@sce.carleton.ca  ...!cunews!sce!greg | the installed base" -- Enzo Torresi  
