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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: CHALLENGE: heterogeneous collections
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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 91 14:09:31 GMT

In article <28436@dime.cs.umass.edu> yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
> We're going to write a real-time operating system in a language with
> major run-time components?

OK, a message queue for a non-real-time-but-pretty-fast operating system.
"Real time" slipped out without thinking, because non-real-time systems
don't seem to use things like message queues as basic primitives. Pity,
because they are damned useful.
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