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Old 03-22-2007, 11:15 AM
Andor
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Default Re: What is real-time?

Andreas Huennebeck wrote:
> minfitl...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> > What is considered real-time? How much latency would be necessary for
> > it to be no longer real-time?

>
> Real time is when the scheduler has a specified maximum context switch
> time.


Not every real-time system has a "scheduler" (in fact, a real-time
system doesn't even have to be a program). This definition is
unnecessarily restrictive.

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