Half Moon Bay, CA. — OnCore Systems Corporation says it is the first company with demonstrable Linux support for the new IBM PowerPC 750CX microprocessor. In a related announcement, OnCore claims sub 5-microsecond response times for task switches between random Linux applications and real-time tasks. The sub 5-microsecond task switch is based on using the company's Systems Software Foundation and Linux for Real-Time products, running on a 550 MHz version of the new PowerPC 750.

Phil Parker, OnCore's Vice President of Marketing, says the company worked with the IBM PowerPC management team to support the requirements of an IBM customer that was developing one of the world's most powerful network switch routers. The result was “a system that would run mission-critical, real-time applications, and simultaneously run a standard version of Linux on a network switch outfitted with 1 to 64 high-performance PowerPC 750 processor cards per node,” says Parker. “Prior to working with OnCore, the customer had evaluated four embedded Linux solutions; each had fallen far short of the requirements to deliver true real-time characteristics,” adds Parker.

OnCore will publicly demonstrate the company's PowerPC 750CX support at the June 13, 2000 Embedded Processor Forum in San Jose, Calif.

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