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Date: 15 Oct 92 10:17:48 GMT
From: mcsun!uknet!yorkohm!minster!mjl-b@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Re: Ada and real-time
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In article <1992Oct14.143733.842@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com> walls@saifr00.cfs
at.honeywell.com (Gerald Walls) writes:
>determinism is very important.  we've ditched Ada's nondeterministic
>task and have instead implemented our own, deterministic tasking.

This is misleading. If all your tasks have distinct priorities, then the
scheduling of those tasks is entirely deterministic.

>Ada's tasking is not suitable for embedded real-time systems.

I disagree.

Mat

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