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Date: 15 Oct 92 16:36:21 GMT
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ahmand.Eng.Sun.COM!grover@lll-winken.llnl.gov  (Vinod Grover)
Subject: Re: What is "real-time"?
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There is another definition of real-time that was popular at some time.  If
the time required by an operation was bounded by a constant, then the
operation was termed as a real-time operation. This is not particularly
useful for hard-real-time systems.

Vinod Grover