[Noisebridge-discuss] ARMduino: A 72 MHz ARM based implementation of the Arduino physical computing platform.

[dpc]

Jason Dusek <jason.dusek at gmail.com> writes:

> 2010/01/02 dpc <weasel at meer.net>:
>> Jason Dusek <jason.dusek at gmail.com> writes:
>> > This will only do half the job of making it easy to write real-time
>> > software for ARM. Without a real-time OS, how will you handle
>> > scheduling and concurrent access?
>>
>> i'm not sure what 'this' refers to, but wouldn't your question be
>> answered by: mostly the same way that any 'regular' os handles it?
>
>   I don't see how your remarks actually apply to the question of how
>   the Sketch programming system ("this") makes it easy to write
>   real-time applications (as opposed to making it easy to write some
>   embedded applications).

i was responding to your last question. a realtime os doesn't provide
much that isn't application specific, and almost all os-es (rt or not)
provide scheduling and concurrent access.

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