[Info-vax] Baremetal emulators, was: Re: Alpha emulator for OSX

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-02-08 18:52, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2016-02-08, lists at openmailbox.org <lists at openmailbox.org> wrote:
>>
>> Very well said as usual. But is this an issue for OpenVMS users? Is OpenVMS
>> used for real-time applications?
>>
>
> Oh, yes, at least for soft real-time ones. (VMS isn't really suitable for
> hard real-time as it doesn't have the required guarantees. No doubt
> someone will be along shortly to claim they have successfully done it
> anyway for specific problem areas. :-))
>
> As Johnny has pointed out, VMS has a level of soft real-time capability
> which traditionally has not existed in the normal Unix world.

I believe VMS was at least designed for also dealing with hard realtime, 
but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe that is why people should stay with RSX. ;-)

If all you have is soft real time, then a Linux host OS will also do, 
since it is sufficient for soft realtime.

It usually manage to hit the target, but you never know, and have to 
live with that it sometimes don't...

	Johnny

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