Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mitel!melair!low From: low@melair.UUCP (Rick Low) Newsgroups: comp.realtime Subject: Re: What is "real-time" really? Message-ID: <293@melair.UUCP> Date: 2 Mar 90 18:45:19 GMT References: <98692@linus.UUCP> <11347@etana.tut.fi> Organization: MEL Defence Systems Ltd., Ottawa, Canada Lines: 20 To quote Isaac Wong's posting here last October: From the IEEE Standard Dictionary of Electrical and Electronics Terms Real Time (1) (general) (A) Pertaining to the actual time during which a physical process transpires. (B) Pertaining to the performance of a computation during the actual time that the related physical process transpires in order that results of the computation can be used in guiding the physical process. (2)................ Can we move on now? -- Rick Low MEL Defence Systems Limited, Ottawa, Canada +1 613 836 6860 mitel!melair!low@uunet.UU.NET