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[author : Bill Cramer]

Porting a real-time process to a Unix environment isn’t always an impossible task. In this article, Bill offers some guidelines and C routines to let you either simulate a real-time OS with Unix, or reorganize the program with a message-passing scheme.

[author : Dan Hildebrand]

An overview of operating system design using intertask messaging, with real-world examples from QNX.

[author : William May]

Bill May returns to DDJ with a simple algorithm for recreating source code from tokens. The example source code is in C.

[author : coordinated by Ron Copeland]

Products examined from the programmer's perspective. This month: The Peabody online programmer’s reference, the C-Index+ data file management library, and T-Debug Plus 4.0.

[author : Allen Holub]

Allen tackles some of the nastiest bugs around with a set of subroutines for tracking down pointers that muck with malloc() and free().

[author : Martin Tracy]

Martin offers some thoughts on the state of real-time Forth, as well as source code for floating-point extensions.

[author : Kent Porter]

Kent examines the new release of Microsoft's Pascal compiler and compares it to Turbo Pascal 4.0; he also takes a short, painful look at Intel's LIM 4.0 upgrade.

[author : Michael Swaine]

Notes on objectivity at Software Development '88, as well as Prolog, parallelism, and transputers.

[author : Tyler Sperry]

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[author : Joe Sikoryak]

[author : Michael Swaine]

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