I’ll finish it someday, but here is a variant.
Read moreSoft real time continues to sag
Paul McKenney once wrote: Despite such complications, priority inheritance works reasonably well for exclusive locks, and is a major component of Ingo Molnar’s CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT patch.
Read moreOn the way to India
I’m off to give a talk in Bangalore and then visit Chennai and Mumbai. In his delightful book called The Argumentative Indian Amrtya Sen writes
Read moreAmar G. Bose on business
B: Research in this country is going down. Prior to World War II, the United States was rather poor in research; that’s why radar was
Read moreSoft real-time and soft design strategies versus QOS
[ see revised version ] (edited August 18 2007 to add back link and formatting) “Soft real-time” is a perfect example of the “soft design”
Read moreProgramming design style
Someone needs to come up with a slick name for “designed to fail during test instead of production” or for the more common “soft” type
Read moreAfghanistani mountain village ponders Microsoft business tactics
From Rory Stewart’s book the places in between about his absurd/wonderful walk accross Afghanistan in 2002: That night we stopped in Dahan-e-Rezak, Dr. Habidullah’ mothers
Read moreThe embedded enterprise
It is now possible to put together sophisticated and powerful embedded and control systems that are mostly composed of pre-existing working software. One of the
Read moreSpeculation on modularity and information theory
One way of defining modules is by what engineers have to know. If a program X consists of components X1 … Xn then we can
Read moremulticore and virtualization and real-time provisioning
We added the “reservation” capability to RTCore real-time POSIX threads a couple of years ago. Normally, the client platform operating system shares the processor with
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