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From: black@yoyodyne..westford.ccur.com (Samuel (Opus) Black)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: extension philosophy [was Re: audio servers]
Keywords: real-time, extension
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Date: 19 Mar 90 16:34:12 GMT
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In article <4872@crltrx.crl.dec.com> jg@max.crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys) writes:

>What is more, audio is a real time operation; it is very hard (read
>essentially impossible) to make real time guarantees in X.

Gee, that's what they said about UNIX a few years ago.  I'm currently working
on RealTimeX, and we'll see what happens...

		- sam

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