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From: gertner@Encore.COM (Ilya Gertner)
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: Re: Why concurrency in real-time systems design?
Message-ID: <11409@encore.Encore.COM>
Date: 21 Mar 90 21:18:57 GMT
References: <1990Mar1.152922.1005@axion.bt.co.uk> <742@runxtsa.runx.oz.au>
Reply-To: gertner@encore.UUCP (Ilya Gertner)
Organization: Encore Computer Corp.
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In article <742@runxtsa.runx.oz.au> jon@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Jonathon Seymour) writes:
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>Probably the best reason to use concurrency in real time systems is
>to decouple parts of the system which have different time constraints.
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very interesting... could the same argument be used for IPCs in real-time
systems: some events are handled as emergencies, with preemption,
other's could be queued for sychronous (send/receive) handling.

How does it sound from both theoretical (i.e. starting from scratch)
and practical (need to coexists with the dusty-deck) points of view?
Ilya