#: 13707 S1/General Interest
    27-Dec-91  13:36:24
Sb: Other Real-Time OSs
Fm: Jay Truesdale 72176,3565
To: all

The company I work for is currently looking for a new hardware and software
combination on which to base our next generation of our products. We build
protocol converters typically for use with mainframe computers, our current
custom hardware uses multiple 6809s, one per user port.

A major issue for us regarding new hardware/software is "time to market," so we
are interested in using a standard off the shelf hardware platform that has
multiple suppliers. We don't particularly care what the underlying hardware is
as long as it is capable of giving us the performance that we need.

I am looking to license C source code for the protocols (SNA, HDLC, SDLC, UDLC,
Bisync, etc.) and then choose some sort of real-time operating system or kernel
and then finally choose a hardware platform to run on.

OS-9 68000 & 9000 are a couple of obvious choices but I am also investigating
other alternatives and this is the basis of my question:

Does anyone here have any experience with other real-time operating systems or
kernels such as Kadak Products' AMX, MicroDigital's SMX, Quantum Software
Systems' QNX, Digital Research's FlexOS, A.T. Barrett's RTXC, or U S Software's
EasyTask!?

If so, please either leave your comments here or else drop me your telephone
number via E-Mail and I'll give you a call.

All comments welcome as this is getting complicated in a hurry and the more
input I can get the better!

Thanks,

-J