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From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-
Subject: Re: What is "real-time"?
Date: 17 Oct 92 20:02:58 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BwA7oy.6Mn.1@cs.cmu.edu> (raw)

In article <1992Oct16.213820.28793@col.hp.com> tbc@col.hp.com (Tim Chambers) wr
ites:
>First I'll explain the approach which is used in our organization.  Rather
>than define "real-time" software, we break it into two categories:
>"time-sensitive" and "time-critical."  Time-sensitive software is that for

Isn't that the same as "soft real-time" vs. "hard real-time"?  Why do you offer
new terminology for the same old categories?  The definition of real-time is
confusing enough as it is, without a proliferation of terminology!

~dave

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