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From: boyle@ANL-MCS.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: question about unix & real time
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Date: Fri, 16-Nov-84 12:17:16 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 16 12:17:16 1984
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In regard to:

    >I concur. I built a real-time portable pulmonary testing lab
    >running on an LSI-11/2 off of only RX02s (with swapping etc).
    >One person would be filling in questionairres while another
    >would be getting a lung test (A/D, ~20KHZ, 14bit.) It worked
    >fine, an occasional hesitation for a few seconds (but with an
    >RX02 as a swap device whoddyaexpect?

    "An occasional hesitation every few seconds?"  That's not what I call
    real-time.

I may be naive, but I assumed when Barry Schein at Boston University
said that there was an occasional hesitation, he meant in the
(non-realtime) filling-out-the-questionnaire part of the application
rathern than in the real-time lung-test-data-gathering part.