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From: rlk@telesoft.com (Bob Kitzberger @sation)
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: Re: What is "real-time" really?
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Date: 3 Mar 90 03:21:04 GMT
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> The only reason that I can see for not considering the payroll system
> (or your nervous system for that matter) a "real time" system is
> hidebound thinking -- if it ain't exclusively chips and wires, it ain't
> a System.

"soft" realtime : half-baked systems 
"hard" realtime : difficult to develop 
"easy" realtime : payroll systems 

Oh yeah... ;-)

	.Bob.
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