8 Mar
2002
8 Mar
'02
1:27 a.m.
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 08:01:52PM +0100, Lars Buitinck wrote:
silly question: what are MERT and RT anyway?
all the timelines list them, but not one actually expands the acronym.
Early realtime variants of Unix. I don't think it's correct to state
that MERT "never made it outside the Labs" -- wasn't dMERT ("duplex
MERT") the original operating system for the multiprocessor 3B20 in
the #4 and #5ESS telephone switches? Indeed, vestiges of this use
have crept into more modern AT&T Unix releases; for instance, there
are references to MERT system call and signal numbers in various SVR4
header files.
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