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Date: 15 Oct 92 16:30:26 GMT
From: iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!cs.widener.edu!eff!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!The-Star.hon
eywell.com!saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com!walls@lll-winken.llnl.gov  (Gerald Walls
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Subject: Re: Ada and real-time
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In article <1992Oct15.144135.24045@sei.cmu.edu> jbg@sei.cmu.edu (John Goodenoug
h) writes:
>
>By "non-deterministic tasking" do you mean the fact that it can be difficult
>or impossible to write down a timeline for a set of Ada tasks, given
>variations in execution times and the effect of preemption?  If so, this is
>not, in itself, sufficient reason to conclude that Ada tasking is unsuitable
>for embedded real-time systems.  
>

the FAA requires this in avionics software.  Ada tasking is not
suitable for real-time avionics software.