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From: mcculley@alien.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: Re: Software primitives for real-time programming languages
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Date: 5 Oct 90 22:29:53 GMT
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In article <743@marvin.jpl.oz>, david@marvin.jpl.oz (David Magnay) writes...
> 
>Perhaps all we need are "generic interfaces", with the implementation details
>up to each vendor.
> 

Isn't that a description of POSIX?

>Remember, most projects go awry in the first 5 minutes. ( It just takes a
>little longer to work out) Lets spend 10 minutes setting the direction.

I'll bet the 5-minute rule is still obeyed! :-)

- Bruce McCulley
  Digital Equipment Corp.
  Corporate Software Engineering