Re: Difference between an RTOS and a OS like Linux ...

Adam D. Bradley (bradley@cs.unca.edu)
Mon, 17 Feb 1997 21:24:47 -0500 (EST)


On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Floody wrote:

> I worked for about a year and a half on a RT nuclear reactor simulation
> for a former employer of mine. Yuck, yuck, yuck (on top of having to code
> in COBOL-2).

Merciful God...at least it was a simulation!

I remember coding a customer database system in COBOL, and getting _that_
to work well was a pain in the @ss... (anybody else out there ever used
Astra OS?)

Adam

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