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From: ben@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Benjamin Ellsworth)
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: Re: What is "real-time" really?
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Date: 28 Feb 90 21:50:01 GMT
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> A real time system could be defined as a system which continuously 
> interacts with an environment characterized by dynamic properties, 
> modifying its behavior and being modyfied by it.

I find this definition in one sense too vague.  Which systems are in a
totally static environment?  In another sense too far out.  Do we have
to have self-modifying systems to have real time systems (the modifying
its behavior part above)?

I think that "time being explicitly and explicitly managed resource" is
my favorite in the string so far.

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Ben