On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Digby Tarvin <digbyt@acm.org> wrote: You are better off designing somethign that has real-time in mind from the start and then retrofitting the Unix/Linux compatability. As the real-time additions to Plan 9 show, that isn't strictly necessary -- if the kernel code base is sufficiently small and well-designed. --Joel

... justify the time needed to write Plan 9 drivers when a usable system already exists. Still you could use...s not much use. Almost every bit of my code (all except a...its ok if there is a bit of buffering to smooth out the...kernel is another way to get more predictable response times - particularly if you...be masking interrupts. It is a bit like the attempts to retrofit ...

> The only issue is that I can't justify the time needed to write Plan 9 drivers when a usable system already exists. Still you could use 9vx to run plan9 on top of this system, that ... can run real-time tasks (pretty sure it cannot) that's not much use. Almost every bit of my code (all except a very thin command interface) is living in a ...

...2) to /dev/analogout0/channel1. The only issue is that I can't justify the time needed to write Plan 9 drivers when a usable system already exists. Still you could use 9vx to run plan9 on top of this system...real-time tasks (pretty sure it cannot) that's not much use. Almost every bit of my code (all except a very thin command interface) is living in a ...

... is completely in my control, so I could use Plan 9 — if I could justify writing the drivers. Trouble is, the driver for the D/...that end. I got a lot of programming done in school using acme under Plan 9; for the first time I realize why the ... have it: sane real-time, decent hardware interfaces, libthread, and data transport methods. Plan 9 still has plenty to teach the rest of ...

> ... Trouble is, the driver for the D/A converter comes with Comedi and someone here has already written a driver for the quadrature encoder. So you have the source for the quadrature encoder, and a DAC cannot be thar complex can it? why not email Comedi and ask them for card programming info. Having said that I do sympathise, its difficult to work out the trade off between putting up...

...Denizens of Cyberspace, have built a popular web side that creates so ... desktop could, and should, be more internally consistent. And, there are ... bit familiar, people would have an easier time. But Plan 9 ... end of looking at Plan 9 at more than one company, ..., windowing system, etc. -- are far more capable than anything else out ... Unix and Windows. I just wish more people could write code....