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Mark A. Scarton wrote:
>
> I must concur.  I built a passive sensor system (radar) using OS/2 for
> management, flow control, and display preparation and an adapter with i860 chips
> for the object tracker.  I used (feed forward) queues of preallocated memory
> blocks to hold incoming signals within frames, where the queue management was
> preallocated slots for pointers into the block buffers.  The queue memory was
> then shared among the processors...successfully even.  ;-)  This resulted in a
> determinstic, highly optimized memory manager.  Plus real-time tracking of
> aircraft and short range ballistic missiles on a 486/50 class PC.  The previous
> edition using malloc had failed.
> 
> Mark A. Scarton, ABD
> CompUtah!, Park City, Utah USA
> Home: 801.565.9835
> Office: 801.265-4612

Yikes! I'd hate to be the pilot of one of those planes the Police use
to catch speeders in your town! :)

Is the above system available for laptops?

(sorry, I just couldn't resist!)

-- 
Gord Wait 	S-MOS Systems Vancouver Design Centre
                (B.C. Canada eh!)
gord@vdc.smos.com

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