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From: gregw@otc.otca.oz (Greg Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: Re: What is "real-time" really?
Message-ID: <1318@otc.otca.oz>
Date: 26 Feb 90 03:06:29 GMT
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Reply-To: gregw@otc.UUCP (Greg Wilkins)
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Definition of "REAL TIME"?????

Well I think that the answer "a system where the answer is wrong if it is
late", is not correct.  This definition includes weather forcasting systems
which must produce an answer in less than 24 hours (otherwise it is a 
weather verification :-).

The best definition I have seen (and I think it should be inlcuded in a
regular "frequent answers" posting) is:

"Real time systems are ones in which 'time' is an explicitly managed
resource." - Author unknown.

-gregw