"Rune Allnor" <[email protected]> writes:

> On 22 Mar, 14:24, Randy Yates <y...@ieee.org> wrote:
>
>> In my opinion any discussion of latency should be removed from the
>> definition of "real-time." These are two "orthogonal" concepts.
>
> Interesting. Could you elaborate?

A real-time system is a system that has a period and a well-defined
maximum amount of work to be done in that period and that can perform
that amount of work in that period.

Latency is input to output delay.
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