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To: carolyn walder who wrote (2962)	3/31/1998 8:55:00 PM
From: Jim Privat	of 10309

Interesting RTOS comment in PC Magazine: zdnet.com The relevant portion: While on the Subject of Microsoft Dept.: Look for the company to make a bigger and bigger push for Windows CE as it tries to move into hand-held phones and every other small device it can find. The company is also talking about doing a real-time operating system, according to an Alexander Wolfe report in EE Times. A real-time operating system actually works in real time, meaning that when you have to do something at 12:01, it gets done at 12:01. You can't have anything interrupting the process. Windows' crazy interrupt-driven quasi-multitasking architecture is a far cry from this. Real-time operating systems are needed, for example, to run nuclear power plants. So the humor, as far as I'm concerned, emerges as soon as the half-baked real-time OS is described. I'm reminded of Windows 95's mediocre multitasking, compared with Windows NT or OS/2. In the case of a real-time OS, they are already saying things such as "real-time characteristics" and "consumer real-time." In other words, not really real-time, but kind of. This is simply nonsense. Real-time is real time, plain and simple. Keep an eye out for this in the months ahead.

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