Re: [MLUG] Opera is now free (as in beer) (fwd)

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 10/30/05, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, James Brockman wrote:
>
> > It will be interesting to see if Linux RTOS distros can catch up, or if
> > QNX can manage to stay ahead thru innovation.  I won't place any bets
> > either way, myself.
>
> Apparently some people say that QNX is faster than Linux.  If that's true,
> it could make a big difference in some applications.

Last I knew was 4 years ago, and, at that point, RT Linux was
completely painful to use, while QNX had been around for a decade or
more (and our project went down in flames for other reasons, but
that's another story).  If you need "hard" real-time, you really do
need a real-time OS. But I should point out that computers have now
gotten so incredibly fast and so much more reliable (really, at least
if you configure them correctly) that most "soft" real-time uses
probably don't require a specialized OS per se.

jking

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