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From: leguerni@irisa.irisa.fr (Paul Le Guernic)
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: Re: What is "real-time" really?
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Date: 27 Feb 90 18:23:38 GMT
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From article <98692@linus.UUCP>, by duncant@mbunix.mitre.org (Thomson):
> 
> 
> Someone asked me recently what real-time really means.  After some thought,
> I answered that real-time systems were simply those {in which the 
> timing constraints were so tight that speciall programming techniques
> were required.  Under this definition, a "real-time" system of today may
> become a non-real-time system whan hardware gets fast enough that I can 
> program it using any regular old operating system (say plain old UNIX)
> using high level language (no assembly language optimization) and not have
> to worry about my software failing to meet its deadlines.
> ~rk
> Anyone care to comment?  What is the best definition of real-time?
> 
> Duncan Thomson