Category Archives: rtlinux

memories

Posted on August 6, 2010 by admin

For some reason, all copies of an early variant of RTLinux called “myrtlinux” by its Italian “author” have disappeared from the web, but thanks to some archives we can find some fragments from old days.  For example, within a year … Continue reading →

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More petty

Posted on November 13, 2009 by admin

The ALMA team has released ACS 8.0 on Red Hat 4.4, downgrading the Linux version from the foreseen 5.2 version. This choice, with the consequent back-porting of the code to the older OS version, had to be taken because of … Continue reading →

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Are threads evil? (updated)

Posted on February 25, 2009 by admin

This paper by Prof. Edward Lee explains something of why “threads” are such a painful abstraction.  As Prof. Lee notes, threads intrinsically create non-determinism and resource conflicts which we then attempt to “prune” via synchronization and complex tools. In an … Continue reading →

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