[luau] linux porting question

Virgil virgil at hawaii.rr.com
Tue Apr 8 10:10:01 PDT 2003


Yes that's what I meant.  I need to brush up on my English skills.

Virgil



> On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Virgil wrote:
>> All I can say is that embedded systems to me would be easier to write to
>> compared to a desktop OS since you won't have to worry about the overhead
>> that comes with a desktop OS.
> 
> I think you meant the reverse.  Having to worry about overhead is usually
> harder.
> 
>> However, because size of the OS plays a big part in embedded systems you
>> are limited on what you can and cannot do.
> 
> Usually, RTOS' are very small.  Or they can be configured to be very
> small.  Even Linux can be small, if you removed all unnecessary features.
> 
> --jc




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