From ches@qualcomm.com Fri Dec 07 10:50:18 2001
Subject:Re: OT: A real OS

Linux is almost as bad a choice as Windows for this kind of project. Even
VXWorks would be overkill. All you want is a simple, embedded
hard-real-time kernel. Anything more will just cause you pain and make you
buy hardware you don't really need. [I'm an embedded s/w engineer, can you
tell? ;-)] At Gulbransen we pretty much did everything on an embedded
80C186 running our own little kernel.

Moving past the OS, my ideal performance keyboard would have a single
61-note waterfall upper keyboard and a 73-note semi-weighted lower piano
keyboard, with the two keyboard set in very close proximity. Two sets of
drawbars would be nice. The only internal sounds would be Hammond, several
acoustic pianos, rhodes, clav, and wurli. Anything else, well that's what
MIDI's for.

OK, back to work now...

Dave

At 02:53 PM 12/5/01 -0500, brian dodds wrote: