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From: ken@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: Deadlines and RT OSs
Message-ID: <651754150.28098@minster.york.ac.uk>
Date: 27 Aug 90 10:49:10 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
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We all talk about deadlines in real-time, but a deadline was originally
a `line around a military prison beyond which a prisoner might be
shot'. Perhaps military real-time operating systems ought to support
this as well?

Ken

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