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Subject: Re: Concurrency always is non-deterministic?
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> In a narrower sense, RT is when the quality of a value (e.g. of a
> response) depends on the real time. For example, when that value
> degrades as the time passes. Hard real-time is when the value reaches
> 0 in bounded time. A program is said to be real time, when it
> processes certain values before their quality degrades below specified
> (usually by the application domain) level.

A somewhat different statement from the one I'm used to, which is pretty
much as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing