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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: question about unix & real time
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Date: Sat, 17-Nov-84 00:06:35 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 17 00:06:35 1984
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> Interrupt latency can be improved dramatically by putting UNIX's critical
> regions under semaphore control rather than the simplistic interrupt
> lock-out that is currently used.

The interrupt lock-out used by UNIX is simple rather than "simplistic."
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