"Andor" <[email protected]> writes:

> Randy Yates wrote:
>
>> In my opinion any discussion of latency should be removed from the
>> definition of "real-time." These are two "orthogonal" concepts.
>
> On the contrary: Latency is exactly what determines whether a system
> is real-time or not.

Not in the dozens of real-time systems I have been involved with.
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