On Sat, 28 May 2005 20:58:23 MDT, Zwane Mwaikambo said: > On Sat, 28 May 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 19:55 -0600, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > > Media apps are actually not that commonplace as far as hard realtime > > > applications are concerned. > > > > Audio capture and playback always have a hard realtime constraint. That > > is, unless you don't mind your VoIP call sounding as crappy as a cell > > phone... > > It still doesn't mean that media apps are commonplace and who says cell > phones don't use RTOS' for their lower level software stacks? I'd be wildly surprised if media apps *were* commonplace on an operating system that didn't supply the needed scheduling infrastructure. That's as straw-man as commenting that applications that used more than 16 processors weren't commonplace on Linux before the scalability work that made it feasible to build systems with more than 2 CPUs....
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