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Date: 15 Oct 92 21:41:30 GMT
From: visicom!amstel!rlk@nosc.mil  (Bob Kitzberger)
Subject: Re: What is "real-time"?
Message-ID: <rlk.719185290@amstel>
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val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kartchner) writes:

>I've given definitions of "real-time" from three different English language
>dictionaries.  Everyone seems to say that these are insufficient in a
>computer science context.  However, no one has actually posted an alternate
>third-party definition of "real-time".  I'll agree to use a formal definition
>as given by the FAQ of the comp.realtime group (sight unseen).

I've cross-posted this to comp.realtime (forgive me ;-).  I've followed 
many a thread on comp.realtime discussing this worn-out topic, but haven't
saved any of it.  

Can anyone from comp.realtime post a pithy summary definition of 
comp.realtime's "conclusions" on what is real-time?

	.Bob.
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