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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada and Distributed Objects - Seeking Success Stories
Date: 1997/05/07
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Date: 1997-05-07T00:00:00+00:00
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Sam said (replying to me)

<<Robert> In the most commonly used terminology, what you describe is
Robert> called *hard* realtime. The designation realtime without the
Robert> hard does not imply that thee are deadlines that must be met.

To rephrase what you said, *soft* realtime may usually be seen as
*best effort*..>>

Well it may be more than this, you may have absolute requirements for
average service performance, even if there are no specific hard deadllines
to be met...