Rumor: Windows RT, Windows Phone to Eventually Merge

[ethanolson]

a Real-time OS should be exploited more on the engineering side of things in the world. I was recently reading about how incredibly difficult is was to port engineering software from DOS to Windows even just a few years ago because it is detrimental to measurement accuracy by certain instruments to have a non-RT OS being in control.

Windows RT needs to be opened up so that engineers can really use the platform.

 

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Windows RT needs to be opened up so that engineers can really use the platform.

Does RT actually stand for Real-Time in Windows RT's case? From the marketing stuff, it seems to be more about "Reliable" and "Touch."

For applications that require true real-time precision, the sensitive data acquisition is often done in hardware - with CPUs so complex these days, doing hard-realtime in software is nearly impossible. The OS serves little purpose other than enabling the end-user to capture, view, manipulate and save the data.

 

[SGTgimpy]

Does this mean that traditional windows x64/x86 applications won't run on windows RT (Photoshop etc.) ?

Windows RT is a cross-platform OS. It was never intended to be compatible with desktop applications compiled for x86.

More than half the devices running Windows RT lack the first requirement for being able to run x86-based applications reasonably well: a x86-based CPU since most of them use ARM.

Windows RT is a full blown version of Windows 8 coded for ARM. PERIOD. It is not a cross-platform anything. The only reason it cannot run legacy x86 Applications is because it has been complied for ARM CPU's. Period. No ARM CPU can run x86 anything without the use of an emulation program which would severely degraded performance of the application.

I do not understand why people just make stuff up for.

P.S. If you want to compile your own ARM based Desktop App. You can run it just fine on Windows RT with a little help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2092158