Los Gatos, California-based Lynx Real-Time Systems Inc has introduced version 2.2 of LynxOS, its real-time operating system. Enhancements to the new release enhancements include Posix 1003.4 real-time extensions, which enable users to execute Ada code in Unix environments. Improved library functions have been added to increase the performance of Threads and semaphores – special-purpose data types. It supports the Futurebus+, increasing the number of user priorities LynxOS can process to include rate, multiprocessing and scheduling. LynxOS’s Unix compatibility has been improved and now includes Unix System V.4 Streams support, and binary compatability with Unix V.3.2 system calls and Unix shells. Other features include expansion of main memory support to 512Mb and total storage space of 2Gb. Version 2.2 is available now and runs on Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcstation 2s, MIPS Technologies Inc’s R3000, IBM RS/6000s and Hewlett-Packard Co HP 9000s, the company says.
