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- From: beaudoin@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca (Martin Beaudoin)
- Subject: Re: Real-time OS for PC's
- In-Reply-To: Christopher Vickery's message of Monday, 21 Dec 1992 21:45:36 EST
- Message-ID: <BEAUDOIN.93Jan2212734@seguin.ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca>
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 02:33:04 GMT
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- In article <92356.214536CCVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> Christopher Vickery <CCVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
-
- I'm curious about the two people who have had problems with Intel
- development tools. I've been teaching courses using iRMX at
- Queens College since 1984. The only change/inconsistency that I
- have been aware of was a change from the Mark Williams C compiler
- to the present one, an ANSI C compiler that, I was told by someone
- at Intel, was based on their own PLM compiler. There have been
- bugs in their development tools, but my experience is that they
- fix the bugs and the tools are reliable. I've certainly never
- seen inconsistencies from version to version -- except when going
- from the "traditional" C compiler by Mark Williams, which never
- was reliable enough to work with in my opinion, to the current
- ANSI C compiler, which has finally made me give up PLM for good.
- -------
- Christopher Vickery, Computer Science Department, Queens College (CUNY)
- Flushing, NY 11367-0904 vickery@ipc1.cs.qc.edu (718)997-3500
-
- Same here. I've been using iRMXII, iRMXIII and iRMXIII/DOS since 1990,
- and the tools are indeed quite reliable. iRMX lacks some software
- developpement tools, as provided by good Unix platforms, but porting
- the lacking tools to iRMX is quite feasible (as I did for tar, make
- and diff...) .
-
- Intel decided not to port its Pascal compiler to the 32 bits
- environnement, like it did with ASM386, IC386 and PLM386. But you can
- still use the 16 bits compilers like pas286 and ic286 with iRMXIII and
- iRMXIII for Windows, so it's not so bad...
-
- The code that was working on iRMXII was ported to iRMXIII and later to
- iRMXIII/DOS without any problems. I'm looking forward to install the
- latest version of iRMX for Windows real soon (TCP/IP support...).
-
- Intel also provided me with a pretty good and fast on-line support. I
- recommend iRMX for anyone serious enough and open enough to take the
- iRMX plunge.
-
- --
- Martin Beaudoin mbeaudoin@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca
- Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Quebec Tel: +1 514 652-8136
- Varennes, QC, Canada J3X 1S1 Fax: +1 514 652-8435
-