Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!husc6!genrad!topo!wongi
From: wongi@topo.UUCP (Isaac Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: Re: What makes a system "real-time?"
Message-ID: <18334@topo.UUCP>
Date: 23 Oct 89 17:15:48 GMT
References: <1989Oct18.151758.5227@planck.uucp> <2910@psivax.UUCP>
Sender: st7801::wongi (Isaac Wong)
Reply-To: wongi@topo.UUCP (Isaac Wong)
Organization: GenRad Inc., Milpitas CA
Lines: 19



From the IEEE Standard Dictionary of Electrical and Electronics Terms

	Real Time (1) (general) (A) Pertaining to the actual time during which
a physical process transpires. (B) Pertaining to the performance of a 
computation during the actual time that the related physical process transpires
in order that results of the computation can be used in guiding the physical
process.
	(2)................




-- 
Isaac Wong					    	....!sun!topo!wongi 
GenRad, Structural Test Product Div. Milpitas, CA   	wongi@topo.uucp	    

"You have no reason to believe in this sentence"      -Raymond Smullyan