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Date: 17 Aug 93 14:58:44 GMT
From: agate!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!drosenfe%motown.ge.com@ucbvax.Berk
eley.EDU
Subject: Re: Language runtime requirements
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>>From mikeb@fsi-ssd.csg.ssd.fsi.com (Mike Bates)
>Subject: Re: Language runtime requirements (was Re: DoD
>Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1993 16:06:16 GMT
>
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>We had a few problems with the environment -- device drivers were
>written for transaction-processing "real-time," not for hard
>real-time.

Could someone please explain the difference between
transaction-processing real-time, and "hard" real-time.


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