Start Date
4-1986 8:00 AM
Description
This paper describes a project to evaluate the feasibility of using commercial off the shelf hardware and the UNIX (trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories) operating system, to implement a real time control and monitor system. A functional subset of the Checkout, Control and Monitor System (CCMS) was chosen as the testbed for the project. The project consists of three separate architecture implementations. A local area bus network, a star network, and a central host. The motivation for this project stemmed from the need to find a way to implement real-time systems, without the cost burden of developing and maintaining custom hardware and unique software. This has always been accepted as the only option because of the need to optimize the implementation for performance. However, with the cost/performance of today's hardware, the inefficiencies of high-level languages and portable operating systems can be effectively overcome.
The Use of UNIX in a Real-Time Environment
This paper describes a project to evaluate the feasibility of using commercial off the shelf hardware and the UNIX (trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories) operating system, to implement a real time control and monitor system. A functional subset of the Checkout, Control and Monitor System (CCMS) was chosen as the testbed for the project. The project consists of three separate architecture implementations. A local area bus network, a star network, and a central host. The motivation for this project stemmed from the need to find a way to implement real-time systems, without the cost burden of developing and maintaining custom hardware and unique software. This has always been accepted as the only option because of the need to optimize the implementation for performance. However, with the cost/performance of today's hardware, the inefficiencies of high-level languages and portable operating systems can be effectively overcome.
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